Motivational Quotes

Action

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

- Durant, William J.

Best Quotes about Action

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Saying, Zen

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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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

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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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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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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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

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

James, William

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

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Crow, Trammell

38.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

41.

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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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton