Motivational Quotes

Action

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Action

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

Fichte, Johann G.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

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 sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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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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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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Mother Teresa

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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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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

39.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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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 wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement