Motivational Quotes

Action

Many are called but few get up.

- Herford, Oliver

Best Quotes about Action

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Levi, Peter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mother Teresa

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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.

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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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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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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Troward, Thomas

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Proverb, American

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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The only way to start is to start.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Sandburg, Carl

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Shirley, James

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.