Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Lord, Shirley

Best Quotes about Action

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

Liter, James

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

10.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

11.

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

Edwards, Edward

12.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Dyer, Wayne

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

21.

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

Hubbard, Kin

22.

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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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

30.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

31.

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

Warford, Rita

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

33.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

34.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

45.

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Company, Lanes

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita