Motivational Quotes

Action

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Action

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Brown, Les

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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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

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

Proverb, Chinese

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Einstein, Albert

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Marley, Bob

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Aristotle

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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

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

Buffett, Warren

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

Smith, Liz

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Curcio, Joan L.

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Warford, Rita