Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Iacocca, Lee

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Havel, Vaclav

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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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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Galsworthy, John

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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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

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.