Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

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

Sandburg, Carl

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.

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

Carrel, Alexis

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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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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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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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.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, English

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Grant, Heber J.

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Gramsci, Antonio

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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