Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Holmes, Marjorie

Best Quotes about Action

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

Pilgrim, Peace

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Company, Lanes

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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