Motivational Quotes

Action

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Best Quotes about Action

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Holtz, Lou

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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 the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Grant, Heber J.

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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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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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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 dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

Liter, James

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

Wanamaker, John

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

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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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.

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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From small beginnings come great things.