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

Proverb, English

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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

Confucius

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Graham, Martha

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Smith, Liz

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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

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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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The only way to start is to start.

39.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Curcio, Joan L.

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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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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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.

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will