Motivational Quotes

Action

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Action

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

Bowkett, Chris

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Saunders

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

11.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Action is character.

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Rohn, Jim

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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

23.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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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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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

29.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Batt, Al

34.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

35.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

39.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

40.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

Liter, James

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

45.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah