Motivational Quotes

Action

Allow motion to equal emotion.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Action

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

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Rogers, Will

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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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

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Mann, Horace

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Rohn, Jim

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Green, Dennis

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Riley, Pat

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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.