Motivational Quotes

Action

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

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

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mencken, H. L.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Graffiti

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Carrel, Alexis

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston