Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

One of the marks of a 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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

James, William

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

28.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

31.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

33.

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

Warford, Rita

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Pancoast, Mal

43.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red