Motivational Quotes

Action

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

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

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

Roger, John

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Crow, Trammell

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Company, Lanes

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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 secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Einstein, Albert

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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.

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The only way to start is to start.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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