Motivational Quotes

Action

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Action

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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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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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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

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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

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aikman, Leo

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

Grant, Heber J.

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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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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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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

Marley, Bob

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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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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

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Horace

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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One of the marks of a 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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Picasso, Pablo

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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You will never win if you never begin.