Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Cass, Lewis

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

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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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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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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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

Saying, Zen

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

Batt, Al

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Ibo

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Hasselhoff, David

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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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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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese