Motivational Quotes

Action

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Action

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.

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

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Action is character.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Holtz, Lou

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.