Motivational Quotes

Action

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

- Curcio, Joan L.

Best Quotes about Action

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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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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

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Marley, Bob

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

James, William

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius