Motivational Quotes

Action

Don't think, just do.

- Horton, Reiko

Best Quotes about Action

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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.

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

Lord, Shirley

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Grant, Heber J.

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Lu Xun

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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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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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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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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus