Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Bronowski, Jacob

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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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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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Action is character.

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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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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, American

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

Proverb

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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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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.