Motivational Quotes

Action

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

- Proverb, Ibo

Best Quotes about Action

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

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Marley, Bob

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

27.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Act, don't react!

39.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

42.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe