Motivational Quotes

Action

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

- Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Best Quotes about Action

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Lord, Shirley

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Pauling, Linus

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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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

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

28.

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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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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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

James, William

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

Bible

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

Grant, Heber 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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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Proverb, Ibo

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

Evans, Richard L.

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese