Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Action

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

Einstein, Albert

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Smith, Sydney

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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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

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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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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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Crow, Trammell

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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 is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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.