Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Wilde, Oscar

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Croce, Benedetto

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

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

Levi, Peter

17.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

23.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

24.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

26.

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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

29.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

34.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

36.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

37.

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

Mann, Horace

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

41.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Graffiti

50.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe