Motivational Quotes

Action

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

- Rowan, Carl

Best Quotes about Action

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

The only way to start is to start.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Batt, Al

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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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 and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mother Teresa

32.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb, French

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

Ovid

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Hasselhoff, David