Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

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

Ovid

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

13.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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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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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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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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

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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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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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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Hasselhoff, David

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

29.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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

Proverb, English

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Action is character.

41.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

42.

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

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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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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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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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Smith, Liz

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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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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb