Motivational Quotes

Action

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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.

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

James, William

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Proverb, Irish

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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Edwards, Edward

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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

20.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

21.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

22.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

25.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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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

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

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Many are called but few get up.