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

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Plutarch

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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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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Action is character.

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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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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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges