Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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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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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Do it now. Then it's done.

18.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

19.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

32.

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

Allen, Loius A.

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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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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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor