Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

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 secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

Act, don't react!

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

10.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

12.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

13.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

14.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Green, Dennis

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

24.

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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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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.

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Proverb, Ibo

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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Bible

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Levi, Peter

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

Plutarch

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

44.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Einstein, Albert

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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.