Motivational Quotes

Action

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Action

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Hasselhoff, David

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

James, William

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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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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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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.