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

Act, don't react!

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Proverb, Chinese

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

Gerstner, Lou

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Smith, Liz

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo