Motivational Quotes

Action

A well begun is half ended.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Holtz, Lou

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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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

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio