Motivational Quotes

Action

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Action

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Do it now. Then it's done.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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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

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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

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Saying, Zen

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Greene, Robert

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Proverb, German

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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