Motivational Quotes

Action

He is rich that is satisfied.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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.

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Saunders

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.