Motivational Quotes

Action

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Action

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

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

Maharshi, Ramana

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Aikman, Leo

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

Levi, Peter

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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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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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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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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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Crow, Trammell

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Action is character.

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

Grant, Heber J.

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lord, Shirley

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.