Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

No rules for success will work if you don't.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Galsworthy, John

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

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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 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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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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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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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.