Motivational Quotes

Action

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

- Turner, Ted

Best Quotes about Action

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.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Maharshi, Ramana

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Grant, Heber J.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Holtz, Lou

35.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Rogers, Will

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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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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

41.

Act, don't react!

42.

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

43.

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

Angelou, Maya

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.