Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Action

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Auerbach, Red

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Aristotle

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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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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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Holtz, Lou

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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

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.