Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Lord, Shirley

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

Edwards, Edward

11.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Mexican

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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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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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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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

31.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

32.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Viscott, David

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

37.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Mann, Horace

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.