Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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

Green, Dennis

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Proverb, Ibo

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Crow, Trammell

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og