Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

Smiles, Samuel

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Aristotle

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Bible

15.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

16.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

20.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

21.

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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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

29.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

31.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Proverb, French

40.

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

Iacocca, Lee

41.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

42.

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

Troward, Thomas

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel