Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Proverb, Chinese

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Bible

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Marley, Bob

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dyer, Wayne

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Saunders

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, American

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

Ross, Percy

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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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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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston