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

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Auerbach, Red

Act, don't react!

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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 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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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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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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, German

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Saunders