Motivational Quotes

Action

Never confuse motion with action.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

The only way to start is to start.

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

Lord, Shirley

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Smith, Liz

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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