Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Grant, Heber J.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Eliot, George

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Liter, James

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Courteline, Georges

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Pancoast, Mal

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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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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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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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

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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 can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Proverb, Chinese

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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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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