Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Action is character.

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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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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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

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

Roger, John

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Bowkett, Chris

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Auerbach, Red

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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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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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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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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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