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

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

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

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Proverb, Mexican

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Rogers, Will

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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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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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Company, Lanes

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

20.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

24.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Grant, Heber J.

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

34.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Courteline, Georges

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

Mother Teresa

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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 will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard