Motivational Quotes

Action

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

- Melville, Herman

Best Quotes about Action

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Bible

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

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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Proverb

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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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

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