Motivational Quotes

Action

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

- Calvin, John

Best Quotes about Action

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ovid

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

Allen, Loius A.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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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.

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

Proverb, German

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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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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

Green, Dennis

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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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