Motivational Quotes

Action

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Action

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Einstein, Albert

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

29.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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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

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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

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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.

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

Smith, Liz

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Riley, Pat

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De