Motivational Quotes

Action

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Action

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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 hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

South, Bishop Robert

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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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

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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 search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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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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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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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Quarles, Francis