Motivational Quotes

Action

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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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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 makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Curcio, Joan L.

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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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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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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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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Cass, Lewis

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

49.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North