Motivational Quotes

Action

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

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

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Pauling, Linus

17.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

18.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Quarles, Francis

30.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

34.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

35.

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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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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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck