Motivational Quotes

Action

He is rich that is satisfied.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Auerbach, Red

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

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

Liter, James

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bible

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Levin, James

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Milne, A. A.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

Bergson, Henri L.