Motivational Quotes

Action

Try and trust will move mountains.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Action

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Auerbach, Red

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Quarles, Francis

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

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

Marley, Bob

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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

Proverb, American

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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