Motivational Quotes

Action

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

- Howells, William Dean

Best Quotes about Action

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, Chinese

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

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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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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Marley, Bob

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement