Motivational Quotes

Action

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

- Lewis, Harvey Spencer

Best Quotes about Action

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Proverb, Chinese

Act, don't react!

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

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Liter, James

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

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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

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

Hasselhoff, David

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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

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

Saunders

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Pancoast, Mal

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William