Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

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

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

13.

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

Proverb, German

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

19.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

20.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

21.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

24.

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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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Proverb, Mexican

28.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

30.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

32.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

38.

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 road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

40.

Do it now. Then it's done.

41.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Heine, Heinrich

45.

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

Howells, William Dean

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.