Motivational Quotes

Action

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

- Howells, William Dean

Best Quotes about Action

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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The only way to start is to start.

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Macdonald, George

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

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

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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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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Bible

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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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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

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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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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee