Motivational Quotes

Action

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

- Byrhhe, Anne

Best Quotes about Action

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Levi, Peter

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

Carnegie, Andrew

11.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

12.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

13.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

14.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

15.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

16.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

18.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

20.

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

Lord, Shirley

21.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

22.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

24.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

25.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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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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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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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

30.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

31.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

32.

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

33.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

35.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

36.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

44.

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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The only way to start is to start.

46.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris