Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Cass, Lewis

Best Quotes about Action

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Graffiti

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Crow, Trammell

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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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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Proverb, Irish

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Holtz, Lou

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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

Eliot, George

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.