Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

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

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Lord, Shirley

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Bible

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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 is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Act, don't react!

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert