Motivational Quotes

Action

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

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

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von