Motivational Quotes

Action

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Action

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

Do it now. Then it's done.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Riley, Pat

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

James, William

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Bible

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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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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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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Graffiti

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

Angelou, Maya

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.