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

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

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

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

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Company, Lanes

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.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Horace

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Shakespeare, William

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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

Crow, Trammell

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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.

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward