Motivational Quotes

Action

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Action

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

21.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

23.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Mother Teresa

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Horace

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

34.

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