Motivational Quotes

Action

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Action

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Proverb, French

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

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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 sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

11.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

15.

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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Milne, A. A.

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

43.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von