Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Adams, Charles Francis

Best Quotes about Action

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ovid

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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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act, don't react!

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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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