Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bergson, Henri L.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

12.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Buffett, Warren

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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

Greene, Robert

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Bible

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert