Motivational Quotes

Action

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Action

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

Warford, Rita

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Plutarch

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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

Lord, Shirley

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

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

Milne, A. A.

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

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

25.

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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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Action is character.

44.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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No rules for success will work if you don't.