Motivational Quotes

Action

Before you can do something you must first be something.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Holtz, Lou

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Heine, Heinrich

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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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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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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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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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