Motivational Quotes

Action

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

- Adams, Charles Francis

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Chinese

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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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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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Levi, Peter

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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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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

21.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Courteline, Georges

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Action is character.

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

27.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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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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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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