Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Angelou, Maya

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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If you want to get along, go along.