Motivational Quotes

Action

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

- Sandburg, Carl

Best Quotes about Action

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Bible

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

One of the marks of a 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

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marley, Bob

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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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Riley, Pat

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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

46.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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