Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Action

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Holcomb, John H.

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

James, William

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

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

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Saying, Zen

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

14.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

18.

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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

20.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lu Xun

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

Aristotle

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

49.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.