Motivational Quotes

Action

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

- Letterman, Elmer G.

Best Quotes about Action

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Lowenstein, John

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Shakespeare, William

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Auerbach, Red

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Levin, James

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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.

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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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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Marley, Bob

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Mann, Horace

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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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

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen