Motivational Quotes

Action

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Action

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Quarles, Francis

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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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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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

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

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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.

21.

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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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Howells, William Dean

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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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

39.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Green, Dennis

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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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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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle