Motivational Quotes

Action

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Action

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

11.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, French

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

18.

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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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

21.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Viscott, David

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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

26.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

27.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

28.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

31.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

34.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

35.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

36.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

39.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

40.

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

41.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

42.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

43.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

44.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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