Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Grant, Heber J.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Mann, Horace

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Bible

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Crow, Trammell

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The best way to get something done is to begin.