Motivational Quotes

Action

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Action

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

Ziglar, Zig

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Levi, Peter

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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.

12.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

15.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

16.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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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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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 greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Plutarch

25.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Roger, John

27.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

28.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

29.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

30.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

32.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

33.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

34.

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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

36.

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

Marley, Bob

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

42.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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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

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Howells, William Dean

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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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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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