Motivational Quotes

Action

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

- Char, Rene

Best Quotes about Action

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

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

Wordsworth, William

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Ovid

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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

14.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

18.

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

Roger, John

19.

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

Holtz, Lou

20.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

21.

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

Cass, Lewis

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

23.

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

Milne, A. A.

24.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

25.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

29.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

30.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

32.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

33.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

35.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

38.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Riley, Pat

40.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

41.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

42.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

43.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

44.

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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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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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

49.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mother Teresa