Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Action

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Galsworthy, John

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

28.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Hasselhoff, David

34.

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

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Confucius

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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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

48.

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

James, William

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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.