Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Levi, Peter

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

11.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

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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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Bible

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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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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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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

28.

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

Company, Lanes

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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

40.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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.