Motivational Quotes

Action

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Action

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Lord, Shirley

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Green, Dennis

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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

James, William

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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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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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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Shakespeare, William

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Ovid

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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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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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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

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

Wordsworth, William

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.