Motivational Quotes

Action

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Lowenstein, John

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

Smith, Liz

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

Saying, Zen

36.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Horace

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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 is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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To begin, begin.