Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Action

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Courteline, Georges

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

11.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

13.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

17.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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One of the marks of a 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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

24.

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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Proverb, Ibo

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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

James, William

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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