Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Chinese

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

The only way to start is to start.

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

Proverb, American

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Company, Lanes

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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

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Liter, James

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

James, William

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.