Motivational Quotes

Action

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Action

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Fichte, Johann G.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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

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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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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Proverb

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

Crow, Trammell

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas