Motivational Quotes

Action

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Action

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

Do it now. Then it's done.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

South, Bishop Robert

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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

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

Eliot, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Smith, Liz

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Levin, James