Motivational Quotes

Action

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

- Schmidt, Helmut

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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

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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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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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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

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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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Horace

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

James, William

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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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

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga