Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Carlyle, Thomas

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

James, William

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Allen, Loius A.

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

Bowkett, Chris

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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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

31.

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

Eliot, George

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Lord, Shirley

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Proverb, French

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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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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Milne, A. A.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman