Motivational Quotes

Action

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Action

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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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

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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 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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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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