Motivational Quotes

Action

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Action

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

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

10.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

11.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

12.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

17.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

18.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

20.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

21.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

24.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

25.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

28.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

29.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

30.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

32.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Smith, Liz

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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

37.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

38.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

39.

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

40.

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

Levin, James

41.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Marley, Bob

45.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

46.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

47.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Leap, and the net will appear.