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

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.

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

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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 rules for success will work if you don't.

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

James, William

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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

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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Batt, Al

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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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

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Picasso, Pablo

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Mother Teresa

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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