Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Hill, Napoleon

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, American

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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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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

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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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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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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 human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Irish

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

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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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Act, don't react!

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement