Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Jacobs, Joseph

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

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

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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

Viscott, David

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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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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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, German

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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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.

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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

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.