Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Action

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

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Wilde, Oscar

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

18.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

20.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Horace

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Gide, Andre

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

28.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

34.

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

Aristotle

36.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

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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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

43.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement