Motivational Quotes

Action

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Action

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Smiles, Samuel

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Milne, A. A.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

11.

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Act, don't react!

27.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

30.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

31.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

32.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

33.

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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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

44.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell