Motivational Quotes

Action

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

- Grant, Heber J.

Best Quotes about Action

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

Batt, Al

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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

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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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Holtz, Lou

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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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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

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.