Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

3.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

4.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

7.

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

Iacocca, Lee

8.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

9.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

10.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

11.

The only way to start is to start.

12.

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

Grant, Heber J.

13.

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

Einstein, Albert

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

16.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

17.

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

Courteline, Georges

18.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

19.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

20.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

21.

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

Pauling, Linus

22.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

23.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

24.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

26.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

27.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

28.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

29.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

30.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

31.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

32.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

33.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

34.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

36.

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

Wanamaker, John

37.

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.

38.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Sher, Barbara

41.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

42.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

43.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

44.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

45.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

46.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

47.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

48.

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

49.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

50.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony