Motivational Quotes

Action

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Action

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

18.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Smith, Liz

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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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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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson