Motivational Quotes

Action

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

- Hasselhoff, David

Best Quotes about Action

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cass, Lewis

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The only way to start is to start.

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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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

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

Shirley, James

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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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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

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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

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

Rogers, Will