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

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

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

10.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

11.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

12.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

13.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

14.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

15.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

16.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

17.

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

18.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

19.

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

Viscott, David

20.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

21.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

22.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

23.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

24.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

25.

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

26.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

27.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

28.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

29.

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

Troward, Thomas

30.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

31.

Do it now. Then it's done.

32.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

33.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

34.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

35.

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

Robbins, Anthony

36.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

37.

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

Iacocca, Lee

38.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

39.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

40.

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.

41.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

43.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

44.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

Sandburg, Carl

46.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

47.

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

Proverb

48.

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

Grant, Heber J.

49.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

50.

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