Motivational Quotes

Action

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

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

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Liter, James

18.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

19.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

22.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

23.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

24.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

25.

Act, don't react!

26.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

30.

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

31.

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

Confucius

32.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

35.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

36.

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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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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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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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

40.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

41.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

42.

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

43.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

45.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

48.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert