Motivational Quotes

Action

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Action

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

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

Jacobs, Joseph

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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.

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

Roger, John

10.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

12.

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

13.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

14.

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

15.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

16.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

18.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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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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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

21.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

23.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

24.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

25.

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

Pauling, Linus

26.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

27.

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

28.

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

29.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

30.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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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

33.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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

35.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

36.

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

Carrel, Alexis

37.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

38.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

40.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

43.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

45.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Bevan, Aneurin

47.

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

Marley, Bob

48.

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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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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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will