Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Collingwood, Robin G.

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

21.

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

Saunders

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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

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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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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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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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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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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

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Pauling, Linus

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.