Motivational Quotes

Action

Try and trust will move mountains.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Action

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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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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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Troward, Thomas

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Warford, Rita

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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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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Lord, Shirley

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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 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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Act, don't react!

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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