Motivational Quotes

Action

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

11.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

12.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

19.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

22.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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

Bible

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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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

27.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

28.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Cass, Lewis

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

32.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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Action is character.

37.

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

Proverb, Italian

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Howells, William Dean

40.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

41.

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

Dyer, Wayne

42.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

43.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

44.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

46.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

49.

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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William