Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Action

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

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

11.

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

Einstein, Albert

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

13.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Howells, William Dean

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Action is character.

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

Auerbach, Red

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.