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

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The only way to start is to start.

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

Ovid

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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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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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Grant, Heber J.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Mother Teresa

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.