Motivational Quotes

Action

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Action

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Riley, Pat

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

Marley, Bob

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

Saunders

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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 secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Saying, Zen

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

25.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

Howells, William Dean

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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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.