Motivational Quotes

Action

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Best Quotes about Action

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, German

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

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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.

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

Company, Lanes

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Sandburg, Carl

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dyer, Wayne