Motivational Quotes

Action

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

- Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Best Quotes about Action

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Do it now. Then it's done.

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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

12.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

13.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Proverb

18.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lu Xun

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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

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

Evans, Richard L.

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

36.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Plutarch

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

43.

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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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I didn't think; I experimented.