Motivational Quotes

Action

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about Action

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

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Act, don't react!

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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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

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw 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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Graffiti

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Lu Xun