Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Action is character.

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

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.

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.

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

Levi, Peter

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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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

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

James, William

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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Eliot, George

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The only way to start is to start.

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Hoffer, Eric