Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Collingwood, Robin G.

Best Quotes about Action

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

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

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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Act, don't react!

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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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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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Balzac, Honore De

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William