Motivational Quotes

Action

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Action

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

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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

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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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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

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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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

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Saying, Zen

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Bible

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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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

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

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.