Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Action

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

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Plutarch

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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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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

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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

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Aristotle

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

Hasselhoff, David

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Aristotle

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Carrel, Alexis

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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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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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

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Lord, Shirley

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy