Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Action

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

31.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

33.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.