Motivational Quotes

Action

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

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

Wordsworth, William

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Edwards, Edward

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Holmes, Marjorie

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

11.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

12.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Company, Lanes

21.

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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

28.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

29.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

30.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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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.

32.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

38.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

40.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

41.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

Auerbach, Red

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.