Motivational Quotes

Action

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

- Malraux, Andre

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Lincoln, Abraham

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Do it now. Then it's done.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

James, William

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Italian

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smiles, Samuel

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Bible

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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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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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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Chinese

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.