Motivational Quotes

Action

What we need is to use what we have.

- Walsh, Basil S.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Smith, Liz

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

Proverb, Italian

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Bible

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

James, William

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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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