Motivational Quotes

Action

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

- Holmes, Marjorie

Best Quotes about Action

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

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

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Shirley, James

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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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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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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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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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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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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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

36.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga