Motivational Quotes

Action

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Action

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.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

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

Warford, Rita

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Act, don't react!

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, Irish

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only way to start is to start.

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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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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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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

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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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

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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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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Levi, Peter

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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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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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.