Motivational Quotes

Action

Never confuse motion with action.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Do it now. Then it's done.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Horace

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Proverb, Irish

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Shakespeare, William

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

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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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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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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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.

Lincoln, Abraham

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sher, Barbara

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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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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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Proverb, Chinese