Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Gracian, Baltasar

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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