Motivational Quotes

Action

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Action

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mann, Horace

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Marley, Bob

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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 deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Ross, Percy

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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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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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

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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.