Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Action

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

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.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

James, William

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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The only way to start is to start.

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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

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