Motivational Quotes

Action

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Action

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Bible

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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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

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

31.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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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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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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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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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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

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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