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

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

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

Lord, Shirley

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

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

11.

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

12.

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

Cass, Lewis

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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

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

15.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

16.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

17.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

20.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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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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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

28.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

29.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Sandburg, Carl

31.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

33.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

34.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

35.

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

Saying, Zen

36.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

37.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

39.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

40.

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

41.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Bible

43.

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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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

45.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

50.

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