Motivational Quotes

Action

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

Best Quotes about Action

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

Carlyle, Thomas

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Proverb, Chinese

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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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 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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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

Shirley, James

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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

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Marley, Bob

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

26.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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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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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Gracian, Baltasar

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

39.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De