Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

10.

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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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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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

Marley, Bob

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

Ennius, Quintus

23.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Courteline, Georges

25.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Confucius

28.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

32.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

James, William

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Levin, James

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

40.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Curcio, Joan L.