Motivational Quotes

Action

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

- Letterman, David

Best Quotes about Action

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

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

Marley, Bob

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

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

Hubbard, Kin

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

10.

The only way to start is to start.

11.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

12.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

18.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

19.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

20.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, English

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Aristotle

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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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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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

33.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Warford, Rita

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

40.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

43.

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.

44.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

45.

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

46.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.