Motivational Quotes

Action

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Action

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

Roger, John

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

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

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

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

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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

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

Courteline, Georges

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holtz, Lou

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Marley, Bob

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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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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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

Auerbach, Red

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal