Motivational Quotes

Action

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Action

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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.

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

Riley, Pat

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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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

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Dyer, Wayne

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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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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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

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe