Motivational Quotes

Action

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Action

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Liter, James

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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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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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Bible

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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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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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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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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

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

James, William

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.