Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Saunders

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

Angelou, Maya

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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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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

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

22.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

24.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

25.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

26.

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.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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

33.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De