Motivational Quotes

Action

He is rich that is satisfied.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Croce, Benedetto

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Proverb, Irish

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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

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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

32.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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

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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

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement