Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

James, William

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Lowenstein, John

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

Proverb, Irish

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Lu Xun

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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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