Motivational Quotes

Action

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

- Bowkett, Chris

Best Quotes about Action

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

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. Then it's done.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

10.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

11.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sandburg, Carl

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The only way to start is to start.

18.

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

Evans, Richard L.

19.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

20.

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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

25.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

26.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

27.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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, 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 must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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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

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

42.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

43.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.