Motivational Quotes

Action

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

- Long, Haniel

Best Quotes about Action

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Dyer, Wayne

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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 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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

18.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Iacocca, Lee

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Pauling, Linus

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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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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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Ibo

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle