Motivational Quotes

Action

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The only way to start is to start.

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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 is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Wilde, Oscar

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Company, Lanes

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Howells, William Dean

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara