Motivational Quotes

Action

A well begun is half ended.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Action

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

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

The best way to get something done is to begin.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

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

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.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Levin, James

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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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.