Motivational Quotes

Action

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

- Holcomb, John H.

Best Quotes about Action

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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

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

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

No rules for success will work if you don't.

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

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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The only way to start is to start.

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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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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hasselhoff, David

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

Green, Dennis

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.