Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

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

Pilgrim, Peace

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

Einstein, Albert

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Aikman, Leo

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

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

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

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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

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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

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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

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

Gide, Andre

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Iacocca, Lee