Motivational Quotes

Action

Try and trust will move mountains.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Action

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Courteline, Georges

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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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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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One of the marks of a 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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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smith, Liz

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris