Motivational Quotes

Action

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

- Greene, Robert

Best Quotes about Action

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

Galsworthy, John

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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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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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Ovid

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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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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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Arendt, Hannah

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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 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 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

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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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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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada