Motivational Quotes

Action

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

- Rosen, Richard D.

Best Quotes about Action

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Holtz, Lou

12.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

14.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

17.

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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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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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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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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

Lord, Shirley

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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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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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

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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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Act, don't react!

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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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

43.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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You have to make it happen.