Motivational Quotes

Action

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

- Carrel, Alexis

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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.

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

Mother Teresa

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

10.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

11.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

12.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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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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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

17.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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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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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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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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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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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

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Act, don't react!

38.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

40.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Holtz, Lou

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