Motivational Quotes

Action

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

- Bronte, Charlotte

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Heine, Heinrich

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.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Cass, Lewis

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Crow, Trammell

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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

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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

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.