Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Shirley, James

Best Quotes about Action

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Hubbard, Kin

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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

10.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

11.

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

Holtz, Lou

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Lord, Shirley

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Saying, Zen