Motivational Quotes

Action

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Action

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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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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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Cass, Lewis

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The only way to start is to start.

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Einstein, Albert

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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