Motivational Quotes

Action

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

- Vivekananda, Swami

Best Quotes about Action

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

14.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Dyer, Wayne

18.

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

Holtz, Lou

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The only way to start is to start.

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Edwards, Edward

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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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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

28.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Galsworthy, John

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Confucius

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

37.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Saying, Zen

45.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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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