Motivational Quotes

Action

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Action

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

Schmidt, Helmut

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

20.

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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

Lord, Shirley

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

Ovid

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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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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

40.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.