Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

Confucius

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Proverb, American

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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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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

14.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

15.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

16.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

19.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Lord, Shirley

21.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Picasso, Pablo

25.

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

Eliot, George

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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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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

28.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

29.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

30.

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

31.

Do it now. Then it's done.

32.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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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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

35.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Gracian, Baltasar

37.

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

Crow, Trammell

38.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

39.

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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

41.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

44.

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

Riley, Pat

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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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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

48.

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 greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

50.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin