Motivational Quotes

Action

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Horace

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Eliot, George

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Warford, Rita

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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

28.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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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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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, Irish

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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