Motivational Quotes

Action

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

- Turner, Ted

Best Quotes about Action

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Act, don't react!

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

Curcio, Joan L.

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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

13.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gide, Andre

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The only way to start is to start.

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

19.

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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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

21.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Auerbach, Red

23.

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

24.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

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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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

31.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

33.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

34.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

35.

'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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Dyer, Wayne

38.

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

Saying, Zen

39.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

42.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

43.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert