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

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

James, William

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

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, German

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Sher, Barbara

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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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

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

33.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

40.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa