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

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Quarles, Francis

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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 chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Viscott, David

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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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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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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You have to make it happen.