Motivational Quotes

Action

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Action

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Hazlitt, William

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Bible

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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Action is character.

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

12.

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Holtz, Lou

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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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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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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Lord, Shirley

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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

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lowenstein, John

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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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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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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas