Motivational Quotes

Action

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Action

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

Saunders

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

Proverb, Italian

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Sher, Barbara

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

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

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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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

11.

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

Bible

12.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

14.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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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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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Milne, A. A.

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Ennius, Quintus

30.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

31.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Grant, Heber J.

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Bible

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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