Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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 bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.