Motivational Quotes

Action

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

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

Bible

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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

Viscott, David

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

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bible

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

One of the marks of a 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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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Wordsworth, William

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis