Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Action

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

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

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Proverb, American

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The only way to start is to start.

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Bible

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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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.

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

Company, Lanes

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Marley, Bob

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

James, William

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Rogers, Will

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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.