Motivational Quotes

Action

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, French

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

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Rogers, Will

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bible

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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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.