Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Ovid

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

Buffett, Warren

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Angelou, Maya

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Company, Lanes

12.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

21.

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

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

27.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Balzac, Honore De

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

40.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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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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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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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.