Motivational Quotes

Action

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Action

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Einstein, Albert

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Adams, Charles Francis

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

James, William

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Evans, Richard L.

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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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

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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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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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.