Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Action

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

James, William

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

Brown, Les

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Proverb, German

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

15.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Smith, Liz

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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

Warford, Rita

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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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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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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

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

Saying, Zen

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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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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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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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion