Motivational Quotes

Action

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Action

The best way to get something done is to begin.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Ovid

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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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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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

Rohn, Jim

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Hasselhoff, David

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

Saying, Zen

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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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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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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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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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