Motivational Quotes

Action

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Action

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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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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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 can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Lord, Shirley

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act, don't react!

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Hasselhoff, David

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal