Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Action

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, French

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Act, don't react!

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Action is character.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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 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

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis