Action Quotes - Page 9

• Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.

  Tehyi Hsieh

  Doubt, Theory, Getting Started

  Tehyi Hsieh (1948). “Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs”

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• The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Running, Time

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.28, Graphic Arts Books

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• What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

  Donald Miller

  Believe, I Believe

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The shortest answer is doing the thing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Answers, Literature

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• A nod, a bow, and a tip of the lid to the person who coulda and shoulda and did.

  Robert Breault

  Bows, Persons

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• Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for indolent contemplation and study of thyself, nor for brooding over emotions of piety,--no, for action was existence given thee; thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Voice, Soul, Emotion

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• It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Time, Mean

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• Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.

  Jean Vanier

  Talking, People, Community

  "Community And Growth". Book by Jean Vanier, 1979.

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• Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

  William Hazlitt

  Inspirational, Flow

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• There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that... and I think I am fine.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Father, Character

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• You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.

  Caroline Myss

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Ideas, Birth, Moments

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

  William Wordsworth

  Theory

  "William Wordsworth, a biography".

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• That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.

  Francis Hutcheson

  Happiness, Hard Work, Acting

  'An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue' (1725) treatise 2, sect. 3, subsect. 8.

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• If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.

  Charles Barkley

  Would Be, Ifs

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• Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Shadow, Speech

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.90

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• Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Our Actions, Rhyme, Please

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• There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Hope, Men, Have A Great Day

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• Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?"

  Robert Breault

  Perspective, Happens, Ifs

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• The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.

  Robert Breault

  Order, Done, Lists

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• Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.

  Robert Breault

  Lists, Reason, Now And Then

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• To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Awakening, Mastery

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.48, Rajpal & Sons

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moon, Air, Sun

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.161, Penguin

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• It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.

  Fidel Castro

  Doe, Have Faith, Matter

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 22 Apr. 1959

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