Motivational Quotes

Action

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Action

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

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.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Bible

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

Holcomb, John H.

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Mother Teresa

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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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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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.

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Action is character.

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

Howells, William Dean

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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.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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