Motivational Quotes

Action

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

James, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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One of the marks of a 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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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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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Lu Xun

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Greene, Robert