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 things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Eliot, George

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

11.

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

Wilde, Oscar

12.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

18.

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

Company, Lanes

19.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Aristotle

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

30.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

31.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

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

Einstein, Albert

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

36.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

37.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

38.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

39.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

40.

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

Proverb, English

41.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

43.

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

Graffiti

44.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus