Motivational Quotes

Action

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

- Heine, Heinrich

Best Quotes about Action

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

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Sandburg, Carl

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Auerbach, Red

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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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

23.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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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

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

29.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

Proverb, German

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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

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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John