Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Ennius, Quintus

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Irish

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Mencken, H. L.

10.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

11.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

'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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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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

17.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

18.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

19.

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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

21.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

25.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

26.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

27.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

28.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

30.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

31.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

35.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

36.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

37.

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

38.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

39.

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

40.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

41.

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

Warford, Rita

42.

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

Quarles, Francis

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.