Motivational Quotes

Action

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

- Khan, Pir Vilayat

Best Quotes about Action

Do it now. Then it's done.

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.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

11.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

13.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

14.

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

15.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

16.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

18.

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

Proverb, Italian

19.

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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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb, American

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

Einstein, Albert

23.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

24.

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

Proverb, Irish

25.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

26.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

27.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

28.

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

29.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

30.

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

31.

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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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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