Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Cooley, Charles Horton

Best Quotes about Action

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Auerbach, Red

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.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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.

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

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Mother Teresa

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

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Milne, A. A.

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Liter, James

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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

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis