Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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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

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

Evans, Richard L.

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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.