Motivational Quotes

Action

Let your performance do the thinking.

- Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Best Quotes about Action

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Quarles, Francis

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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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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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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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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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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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ovid

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

Aristotle

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

James, William

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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If you want to get along, go along.