Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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.

Act, don't react!

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Shirley, James

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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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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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Lu Xun

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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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

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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

40.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.