Motivational Quotes

Action

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

- Nin, Anais

Best Quotes about Action

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

One of the marks of a 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 will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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.

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

Galsworthy, John

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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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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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Einstein, Albert

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Warford, Rita

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

Bible

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo