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

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Proverb, Ibo

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Grant, Heber J.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Ennius, Quintus

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Ovid

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Shirley, James

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Levi, Peter

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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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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.