Motivational Quotes

Action

Some will, some don't, so what!

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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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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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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

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

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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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.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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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Action is character.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.