Motivational Quotes

Action

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

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

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Eliot, George

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Troward, Thomas

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Holtz, Lou

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Mother Teresa

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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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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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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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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Levin, James

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

Ziglar, Zig

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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