Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Liter, James

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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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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

Saying, Zen

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Smiles, Samuel

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Shirley, James

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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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

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Ziglar, Zig

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American