Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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

Levi, Peter

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Milne, A. A.

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Act, don't react!

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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.

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

Green, Dennis

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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

Gerstner, Lou

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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

Carrel, Alexis

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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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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.