Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

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

The only way to start is to start.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

Gaulle, Charles De

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Lord, Shirley

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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.

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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.

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

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican