Motivational Quotes

Action

Action expresses priorities.

- Garfield, Charles A.

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Quarles, Francis

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Shirley, James

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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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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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hasselhoff, David

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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

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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

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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 greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bowkett, Chris

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

Company, Lanes

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

Bible

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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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.