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

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

Saying, Zen

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gaulle, Charles De

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

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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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Bible

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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.

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

James, William

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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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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Italian

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.