Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Action

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Brown, Les

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

James, William

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

Hasselhoff, David

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Green, Dennis

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, English

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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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Picasso, Pablo

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.