Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hasselhoff, David

Best Quotes about Action

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

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

Saunders

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Auerbach, Red

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The only way to start is to start.

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Warford, Rita

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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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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Act, don't react!

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Allen, Loius A.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Shakespeare, William

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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