Motivational Quotes

Action

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Action

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.

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

Viscott, David

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

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Proverb, Ibo

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

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Bible

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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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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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