Motivational Quotes

Action

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Action

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

Carnegie, Andrew

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cass, Lewis

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.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Croce, Benedetto

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Action is character.

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Grant, Heber J.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Proverb, Irish

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Crow, Trammell

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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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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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.

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

Saying, Zen

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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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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb, English

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.