Motivational Quotes

Action

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Action

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Auerbach, Red

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Shirley, James

10.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

12.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

18.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

21.

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

Smith, Liz

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Cass, Lewis

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

Sher, Barbara

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

Ziglar, Zig

49.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio