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

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

Sher, Barbara

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

10.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

11.

Do it now. Then it's done.

12.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

13.

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

Proverb, German

14.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

15.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

19.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

21.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

27.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

28.

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

Hasselhoff, David

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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

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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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.

38.

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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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

43.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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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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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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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.

49.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German