Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Shakespeare, William

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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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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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Act, don't react!

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The only way to start is to start.

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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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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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. 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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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet