Motivational Quotes

Action

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Best Quotes about Action

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Ross, Percy

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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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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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Balzac, Honore De