Motivational Quotes

Action

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Action

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Act, don't react!

23.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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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

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

Mann, Horace

31.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carrel, Alexis

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rogers, Will

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony