Motivational Quotes

Action

Many are called but few get up.

- Herford, Oliver

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Cass, Lewis

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Shirley, James

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

17.

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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Arendt, Hannah

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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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The only way to start is to start.

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

43.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Liter, James

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