Motivational Quotes

Action

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Action

1.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

2.

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

Warford, Rita

3.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

4.

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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.

6.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

7.

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

Proverb, Chinese

8.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

9.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

10.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

13.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

18.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

19.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

Milne, A. A.

21.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

22.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

23.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

24.

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

25.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

26.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

27.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

28.

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.

29.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

30.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

31.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

32.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

33.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

34.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

35.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

38.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

39.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

Galsworthy, John

41.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

42.

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

43.

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

Green, Dennis

44.

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

45.

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

Hill, Napoleon

46.

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

Robbins, Anthony

47.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.