Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Viscott, David

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Quarles, Francis

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Howells, William Dean

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Milne, A. A.

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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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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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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

42.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Shirley, James

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

49.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement