Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Action

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

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

Proverb, Ibo

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Mann, Horace

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

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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

Eliot, George

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Dyer, Wayne

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.