Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Wanamaker, John

Best Quotes about Action

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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 will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.