Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Do it now. Then it's done.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Green, Dennis

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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

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.