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

Einstein, Albert

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Bible

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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Act, don't react!

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is character.

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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

Eliot, George

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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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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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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John