Motivational Quotes

Action

He who considers too much will perform little.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Hasselhoff, David

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

Troward, Thomas

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Lu Xun

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

37.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Bible

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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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