Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bronowski, Jacob

Best Quotes about Action

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Einstein, Albert

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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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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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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Bible

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Action is character.

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Lu Xun

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato