Motivational Quotes

Action

No one will do it for you.

- Stein, Ben

Best Quotes about Action

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Roger, John

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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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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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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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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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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Horace

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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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 free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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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