Motivational Quotes

Action

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

- Shirley, James

Best Quotes about Action

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Batt, Al

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Troward, Thomas

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

31.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Saying, Zen

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

Riley, Pat

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Hasselhoff, David

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

Auerbach, Red