Motivational Quotes

Action

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

Action is character.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Bible

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Act, don't react!

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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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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