Motivational Quotes

Action

The ancestor of every action is thought.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

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

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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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

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

Ovid

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Einstein, Albert

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Aurelius, Marcus