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

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The only way to start is to start.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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