Motivational Quotes

Action

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

James, William

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Graffiti

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.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Saunders

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Riley, Pat

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lord, Shirley

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Howells, William Dean

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

Mother Teresa

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Bible

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

Courteline, Georges

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

Milne, A. A.