Motivational Quotes

Action

From small beginnings come great things.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Aristotle

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Eliot, George

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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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

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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.

22.

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Smith, Liz

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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