Motivational Quotes

Action

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

- Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Best Quotes about Action

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

17.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

21.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

22.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

24.

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

Green, Dennis

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

Crow, Trammell

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

31.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Allen, Loius A.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Proverb, Ibo

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

46.

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

Hasselhoff, David

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.