Motivational Quotes

Action

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Edwards, Edward

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Gaulle, Charles De

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

Allen, Loius A.

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Einstein, Albert

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee