Motivational Quotes

Action

Either move or be moved.

- Powell, Colin

Best Quotes about Action

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Wanamaker, John

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

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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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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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bible

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Arendt, Hannah

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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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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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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.

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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