Motivational Quotes

Action

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Action

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Bible

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Batt, Al

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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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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Company, Lanes

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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

Ovid

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lu Xun

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Mencken, H. L.