Motivational Quotes

Action

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Action

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

Einstein, Albert

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Holcomb, John H.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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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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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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

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

Proverb, Italian