Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Grant, Heber J.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Milne, A. A.

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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

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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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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

28.

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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bible

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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

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, Ibo

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

42.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, American

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

49.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin