Motivational Quotes

Action

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Best Quotes about Action

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Howells, William Dean

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Wordsworth, William

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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

Bible

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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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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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz