Motivational Quotes

Action

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Action

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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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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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Smith, Liz

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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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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Do it now. Then it's done.