Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Action

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

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

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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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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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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The only way to start is to start.

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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

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

41.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

42.

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

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.