Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Action

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

Howells, William Dean

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Saunders

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

Angelou, Maya

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

26.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

27.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

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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.

38.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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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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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ennius, Quintus

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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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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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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 never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer