Motivational Quotes

Action

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

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

Bronowski, Jacob

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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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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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Ovid

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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

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Liter, James

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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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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Smiles, Samuel