Motivational Quotes

Action

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about Action

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Eliot, George

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Viscott, David

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Auerbach, Red

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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

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

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

Milne, A. A.

36.

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

Company, Lanes

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

38.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

44.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Quarles, Francis

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