Motivational Quotes

Action

Let us be tried by our actions.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Action

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

James, William

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

Holcomb, John H.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Bible

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

Courteline, Georges

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

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

Allen, Loius A.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Balzac, Honore De

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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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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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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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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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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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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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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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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