Motivational Quotes

Action

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

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

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Brown, Les

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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 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

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

Aristotle

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Riley, Pat

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, German

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

24.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

34.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

40.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

41.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David