Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Courteline, Georges

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

23.

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

Company, Lanes

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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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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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

35.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Cass, Lewis

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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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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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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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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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American