Motivational Quotes

Action

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about Action

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.

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

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

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Milne, A. A.

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

Cass, Lewis

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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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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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

Proverb, Irish

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Italian

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.