Motivational Quotes

Action

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

10.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

11.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

12.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

13.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

14.

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

Holtz, Lou

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

17.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

18.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

19.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

20.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

21.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

23.

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

Iacocca, Lee

24.

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

25.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

29.

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.

30.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

31.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

32.

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

33.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

34.

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

35.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

36.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

37.

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

38.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

40.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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

44.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

46.

The only way to start is to start.

47.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

48.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

49.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma