Motivational Quotes

Action

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Action

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

Shakespeare, William

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Ibo

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

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

Sher, Barbara

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Mann, Horace

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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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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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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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Saying, Zen

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

Smith, Liz

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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