Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Shirley, James

Best Quotes about Action

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

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, French

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Graffiti

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

The only way to start is to start.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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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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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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Act, don't react!

25.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Hasselhoff, David

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Grant, Heber J.

39.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

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

Bevan, Aneurin