Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Action

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make 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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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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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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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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

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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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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Wanamaker, John

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Act, don't react!

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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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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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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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William