Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Wordsworth, William

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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

Courteline, Georges

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Saunders

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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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

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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

18.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

19.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Proverb, Irish

21.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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.

28.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

39.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

41.

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

Milne, A. A.

43.

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

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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