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

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

The only way to start is to start.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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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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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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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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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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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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