Motivational Quotes

Action

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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Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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 only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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The only way to start is to start.

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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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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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

42.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.