Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

10.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

11.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

12.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

13.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

14.

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

15.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

16.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

17.

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

18.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

19.

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

Sandburg, Carl

20.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

21.

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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

23.

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

Proverb, Mexican

24.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

26.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

27.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

28.

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

29.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

30.

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.

31.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

32.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

34.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

35.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

37.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Gerstner, Lou

41.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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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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.

44.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

45.

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

Gide, Andre

46.

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

47.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes