Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bergson, Henri L.

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Lowenstein, John

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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

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Action is character.

17.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

18.

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

19.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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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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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

24.

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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

29.

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

Saying, Zen

30.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

31.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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

33.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

35.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

41.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.