Motivational Quotes

Action

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

- Proverb, Latin

Best Quotes about Action

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Warford, Rita

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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

Horace

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

11.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

12.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

17.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

25.

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

Smith, Liz

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

30.

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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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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The only way to start is to start.

33.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

34.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

35.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

38.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

Einstein, Albert

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

42.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

44.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

45.

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

Company, Lanes

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

Proverb, Italian

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.