Motivational Quotes

Action

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Wilde, Oscar

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Wordsworth, William

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Lu Xun

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Shirley, James

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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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