Motivational Quotes

Action

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

- Zedong, Mao

Best Quotes about Action

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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

Proverb, English

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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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.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Mexican

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

Company, Lanes

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

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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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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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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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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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl