Motivational Quotes

Action

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Action

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Picasso, Pablo

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

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

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

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Gerstner, Lou

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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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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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

Warford, Rita

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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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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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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.