Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Action

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

Action is character.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Roger, John

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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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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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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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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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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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.

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

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

Saying, Zen

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Gide, Andre

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.