Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Green, Dennis

Best Quotes about Action

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Do it now. Then it's done.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Warford, Rita

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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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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Company, Lanes

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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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 discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Bible

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Brown, Les

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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

Proverb, American

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.