Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Adams, Charles Francis

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

11.

The only way to start is to start.

12.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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.

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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.

Bowkett, Chris

15.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

19.

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

Arendt, Hannah

20.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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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

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

36.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hasselhoff, David

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Cass, Lewis

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von