Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Grant, Heber J.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

Ovid

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Smith, Liz

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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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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.

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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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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.