Quotes about action

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"The deed is everything, the glory is naught."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action   

"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action   

"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 on action
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"When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action   

"We will burn that bridge when we come to it."

Gorski, Nick on action   

"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."

Gracian, Baltasar on action   

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

Graffiti on action   

"There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others."

Graham, Martha on action   

"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 on action   

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

Grant, Heber J. on action   

"The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching."

Green, Dennis on action   

"You have to make it happen."

Greene, Joe on action   

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

Greene, Robert on action   

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

Hammarskjold, Dag on action   

"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful."

Hansen, Mark Victor on action
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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 on action   

"The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have."

Hazlitt, William on action   

"You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world."

Hazlitt, William on action
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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 on action   

"Never confuse motion with action."

Franklin, Benjamin on action
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"Action is the real measure of intelligence."

Hill, Napoleon on action
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"Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved."

Hill, Napoleon on action
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"Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

Hill, Napoleon on action
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"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going."

Hill, Napoleon on action
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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 on action   

"Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat."

Hoffer, Eric on action   

"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 on action   

"You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee."

Holcomb, John H. on action
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"You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought."

Holmes, Marjorie on action
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"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on action
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"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on action   

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

Holtz, Lou on action   

"When all is said and done, more is said than done."

Holtz, Lou on action
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"He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin."

Horace on action   

"He has half the deed done who has made a beginning"

Horace on action   

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"Don't think, just do."

Horton, Reiko on action   

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

Howells, William Dean on action   

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

Hubbard, Elbert on action   

"Allow motion to equal emotion."

Hubbard, Elbert on action