Motivational Quotes

Action

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Action

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

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

10.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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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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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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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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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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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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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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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

39.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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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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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Horace

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John