Motivational Quotes

Action

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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Action is character.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Greene, Robert

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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

Lu Xun

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Proverb, Ibo

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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.

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo