Motivational Quotes

Action

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Action

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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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

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Auerbach, Red

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas