Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bergson, Henri L.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Roger, John

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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One of the marks of a 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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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Sandburg, Carl

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline