Motivational Quotes

Action

The ancestor of every action is thought.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

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

Ovid

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

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

Proverb, American

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

12.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Graffiti

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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The only way to start is to start.

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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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Ovid

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marley, Bob

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Smith, Sydney

39.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Adams, Charles Francis

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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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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 search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean