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

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

James, William

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

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Green, Dennis

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Action is character.

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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.