Motivational Quotes

Action

He is rich that is satisfied.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

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

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Ibo

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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

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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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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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

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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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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Gide, Andre

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

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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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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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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.