Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Action

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Evans, Richard L.

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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

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

Proverb

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

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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Arendt, Hannah

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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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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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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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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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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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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Liter, James

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.