Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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.

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

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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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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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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 pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.