Motivational Quotes

Action

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

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Best Quotes about Action

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

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

Levin, James

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Marley, Bob

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

Shirley, James

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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

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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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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

22.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

25.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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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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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Troward, Thomas

37.

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

Smith, Liz

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Iacocca, Lee

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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.