Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

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

Troward, Thomas

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

10.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

12.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

13.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

Milne, A. A.

15.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

17.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

18.

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

Riley, Pat

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

20.

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Hubbard, Kin

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

37.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Quarles, Francis

42.

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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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.