Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Action

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Gerstner, Lou

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

13.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Wilde, Oscar

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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

Bible

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

James, William

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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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Green, Dennis

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

Liter, James

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Iacocca, Lee

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ross, Percy

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

48.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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One of the marks of a 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