Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Plutarch

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

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

Rogers, Will

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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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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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Einstein, Albert

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Horace

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von