Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rogers, Will

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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

30.

Do it now. Then it's done.

31.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

32.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

33.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

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

Courteline, Georges

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Einstein, Albert

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.