Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Chinese

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

Action is character.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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.

10.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

12.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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 secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Lord, Shirley

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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 view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

24.

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

Dyer, Wayne

25.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

34.

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

Bible

35.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

40.

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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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

43.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

44.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

James, William

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra