Motivational Quotes

Action

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

- Wattles, Wallace D.

Best Quotes about Action

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Ennius, Quintus

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

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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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Proverb, Chinese

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Smiles, Samuel

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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.