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

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

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Arendt, Hannah

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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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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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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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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

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

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