Motivational Quotes

Action

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

- Ashton, Marvin J.

Best Quotes about Action

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

13.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

14.

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

Evans, Richard L.

15.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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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

18.

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

Cass, Lewis

19.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

20.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

21.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

22.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

23.

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.

24.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

25.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

26.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

27.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

28.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

29.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

30.

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

Hubbard, Kin

31.

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

Mencken, H. L.

32.

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

33.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

34.

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

35.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

36.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

37.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

38.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

39.

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

Hasselhoff, David

40.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

41.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

42.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

43.

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

44.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

45.

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

46.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

47.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

48.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

49.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.