Motivational Quotes

Action

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Action

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.

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

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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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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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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

James, William

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

Company, Lanes

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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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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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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

James, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

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