Motivational Quotes

Action

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Action

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

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

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

Smith, Sydney

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Bible

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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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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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

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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 discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

Howells, William Dean

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Action is character.

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Aristotle

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

Eliot, George

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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

Sher, Barbara

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted