Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Holmes, Marjorie

Best Quotes about Action

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Mother Teresa

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Sandburg, Carl

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.