Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Schmidt, Helmut

Best Quotes about Action

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Proverb, French

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Proverb, Italian

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

James, William

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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

Liter, James

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Gaulle, Charles De