Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

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

Roger, John

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

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

14.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

18.

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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

22.

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

Green, Dennis

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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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The only way to start is to start.

26.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

31.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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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

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

Hasselhoff, David

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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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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

43.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Bowkett, Chris

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

48.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French