Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Action

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Liter, James

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, Ibo

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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

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

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