Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Action

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

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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 become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, English

12.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

13.

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

14.

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

James, William

15.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

16.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

17.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

18.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

19.

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

Crow, Trammell

20.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

21.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

22.

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

23.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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One of the marks of a 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

28.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

29.

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

Graffiti

30.

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

Holcomb, John H.

31.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

32.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

33.

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

Holtz, Lou

34.

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

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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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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

38.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.