Motivational Quotes

Action

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about 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

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gaulle, Charles De

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

Shirley, James

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Horace

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Riley, Pat

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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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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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von