Motivational Quotes

Action

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

- Char, Rene

Best Quotes about Action

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

Schmidt, Helmut

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

10.

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

11.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

13.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Einstein, Albert

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

18.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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 chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

28.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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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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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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

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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 better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

41.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rogers, Will

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al