Motivational Quotes

Action

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Action

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

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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

Aikman, Leo

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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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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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shirley, James

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Saying, Zen

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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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