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

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Einstein, Albert

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Horace

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bible

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Ovid

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

Einstein, Albert

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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 critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Croce, Benedetto

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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