Motivational Quotes

Action

You have to make it happen.

- Greene, Joe

Best Quotes about Action

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

12.

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

Proverb, Irish

13.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

14.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

15.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

16.

Act, don't react!

17.

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

18.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

19.

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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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

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

Rogers, Will

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

25.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

26.

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

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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.

31.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

33.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

35.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

38.

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

Ovid

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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

40.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

41.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

Do it now. Then it's done.

43.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

44.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

45.

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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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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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

48.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

49.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles