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

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

No rules for success will work if you don't.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Jacobs, Joseph

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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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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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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.

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

Hasselhoff, David

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Arendt, Hannah

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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 shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Cass, Lewis

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

James, William

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Act, don't react!

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb