Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Action

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

Rogers, Will

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

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

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Iacocca, Lee

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You have to make it happen.