Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Proverb, English

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Company, Lanes

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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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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

21.

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

Marley, Bob

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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

24.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

34.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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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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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Shakespeare, William

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement