Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Action

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Bible

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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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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Lord, Shirley

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

Ovid

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

31.

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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Rogers, Will

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

40.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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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