Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Carrel, Alexis

Best Quotes about Action

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Graffiti

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.

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

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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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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 your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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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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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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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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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

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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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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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Lord, Shirley

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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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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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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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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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

Wordsworth, William

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.