Motivational Quotes

Action

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

- Eliot, Sir John

Best Quotes about Action

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ovid

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Ziglar, Zig

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Action is character.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Wilde, Oscar

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

James, William

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao