Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Arendt, Hannah

Best Quotes about Action

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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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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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Talk doesn't cook rice.