Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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.

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

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

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Angelou, Maya

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Grant, Heber J.

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Shakespeare, William

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Courteline, Georges

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.