Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Best Quotes about Action

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Holcomb, John H.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

James, William

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

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bowkett, Chris

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga