Motivational Quotes

Action

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

- Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Best Quotes about Action

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

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Act, don't react!

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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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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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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