Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Action

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Levi, Peter

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

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Marley, Bob

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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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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

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Carrel, Alexis

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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

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