Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Horace

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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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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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The only way to start is to start.

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Hasselhoff, David

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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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

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Lord, Shirley

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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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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

James, William

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert