Motivational Quotes

Action

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

- Inge, Dean William R.

Best Quotes about Action

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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

Hasselhoff, David

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

10.

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

11.

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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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Action is character.

16.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

17.

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

Holtz, Lou

18.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

20.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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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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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

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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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

28.

Do it now. Then it's done.

29.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

30.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

31.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

32.

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

Proverb, Ibo

33.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

Lu Xun

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

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

Auerbach, Red

38.

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

Eliot, George

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

40.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

41.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

45.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Riley, Pat

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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

49.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.