Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

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

Liter, James

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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

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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Crow, Trammell

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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.