Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Action

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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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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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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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William