Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

Act, don't react!

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Bowkett, Chris

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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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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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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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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

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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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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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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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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

40.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.