Motivational Quotes

Action

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

- Ching Ning Chu

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Carrel, Alexis

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Schmidt, Helmut

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Batt, Al

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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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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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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

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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Action is character.

27.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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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

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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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