Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Holcomb, John H.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Gaulle, Charles De

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

11.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

12.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

13.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

14.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

15.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

16.

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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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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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

24.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

25.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

26.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

27.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

28.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

32.

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 journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

35.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

36.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

37.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

38.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

39.

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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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

43.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

44.

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

Gide, Andre

45.

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

46.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb, English

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

50.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald