Motivational Quotes

Action

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Action

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

12.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

15.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

Levi, Peter

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Sandburg, Carl

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.