Motivational Quotes

Action

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Action

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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.

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

Milne, A. A.

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

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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One of the marks of a 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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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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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Action is character.

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal