Motivational Quotes

Action

I didn't think; I experimented.

- Roentgen, Wilhelm

Best Quotes about Action

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Proverb, Chinese

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

11.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

12.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin 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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

18.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

29.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

30.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

32.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

33.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

35.

Do it now. Then it's done.

36.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

37.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]