Motivational Quotes

Action

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Saying, Zen

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

Holcomb, John H.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Courteline, Georges

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

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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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Wanamaker, John

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Act, don't react!

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Bible

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lu Xun

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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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

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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 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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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