Motivational Quotes

Action

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hasselhoff, David

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

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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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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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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Mother Teresa

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Act, don't react!

29.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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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