Motivational Quotes

Action

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

- Gielgud, John

Best Quotes about Action

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Grant, Heber J.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Greene, Robert

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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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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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

James, William

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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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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

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Bible

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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