Motivational Quotes

Action

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

- Roger, John

Best Quotes about Action

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

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

Holtz, Lou

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

Saying, Zen

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

17.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

James, William

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lord, Shirley

40.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Ovid

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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