Motivational Quotes

Action

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

- Galsworthy, John

Best Quotes about Action

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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.

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

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

14.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aikman, Leo

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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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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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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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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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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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

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Act, don't react!

41.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

43.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Milea, Jinx

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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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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

48.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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