Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

4.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

5.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

6.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

Heine, Heinrich

14.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

15.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

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

Graffiti

17.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

18.

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

19.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

20.

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

Wilde, Oscar

21.

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

22.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

23.

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

Wordsworth, William

24.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

26.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

27.

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

28.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Hubbard, Kin

30.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

36.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

37.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

38.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

42.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

43.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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