Motivational Quotes

Action

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

- Dhammapada

Best Quotes about Action

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

The best way to get something done is to begin.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Heine, Heinrich

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Cass, Lewis

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Pauling, Linus

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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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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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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.

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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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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hasselhoff, David

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Act, don't react!

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

Angelou, Maya