Motivational Quotes

Action

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

- Gorski, Nick

Best Quotes about Action

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Smith, Liz

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

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Action is character.

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

James, William

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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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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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 things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Proverb, Ibo

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard 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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

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