Motivational Quotes

Action

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Auerbach, Red

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

Rogers, Will

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Ross, Percy

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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 wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gide, Andre

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Saying, Zen

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Einstein, Albert

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat