Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Macdonald, George

Best Quotes about Action

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

Warford, Rita

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

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Crow, Trammell

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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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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Saunders

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