Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

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

Eliot, George

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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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

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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 itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

Saunders

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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