Motivational Quotes

Action

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

- Berger, Sally

Best Quotes about Action

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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.

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

Picasso, Pablo

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Sandburg, Carl

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Milne, A. A.

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Proverb, Ibo

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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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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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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Quarles, Francis

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao