Motivational Quotes

Action

You have to make it happen.

- Greene, Joe

Best Quotes about Action

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

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.

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

Green, Dennis

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Howells, William Dean

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.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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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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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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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bible

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.