Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- South, Bishop Robert

Best Quotes about Action

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, German

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mother Teresa

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Levi, Peter

11.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

12.

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

Horace

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Lord, Shirley

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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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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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

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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

Proverb, American