Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.

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

Rohn, Jim

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

11.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

17.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

22.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

27.

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

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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

31.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

35.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

39.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Proverb, French

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

Bible

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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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