Motivational Quotes

Action

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Action

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Aristotle

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

11.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Cass, Lewis

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, American

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

Plutarch

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

Milne, A. A.

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Aristotle

34.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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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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

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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 reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Bergson, Henri L.