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

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

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

Pauling, Linus

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Hasselhoff, David

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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

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Eliot, George

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

Ovid

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir 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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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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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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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

28.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

32.

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

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

39.

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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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Einstein, Albert

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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.