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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fichte, Johann G.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Lord, Shirley

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dyer, Wayne

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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