Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

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

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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

Horace

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

Proverb, German

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

Crow, Trammell

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Levin, James

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Mother Teresa

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert