Motivational Quotes

Action

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

- Bronowski, Jacob

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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.

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

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

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Act, don't react!

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Holtz, Lou

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.