Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Gide, Andre

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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

Smith, Liz

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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