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

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Arendt, Hannah

12.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

13.

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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

16.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

17.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

18.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Bible

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

27.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

28.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Sher, Barbara

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

35.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

37.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

38.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

42.

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

Courteline, Georges

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

49.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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