Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Schmidt, Helmut

Best Quotes about Action

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.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

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

Aristotle

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Einstein, Albert

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Do it now. Then it's done.

29.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

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

Proverb, French

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

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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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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

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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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