Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Action

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Graffiti

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.

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

Saying, Zen

10.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

16.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

18.

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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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

20.

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

Proverb, French

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Italian

23.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

24.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

26.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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.

28.

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

29.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

30.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

31.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

33.

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

34.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

35.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

37.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

38.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

39.

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

Proverb

40.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

41.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

42.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

48.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

50.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo