Motivational Quotes

Action

He who considers too much will perform little.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Action

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Company, Lanes

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

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

James, William

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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

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

Saying, Zen

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

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Action is character.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

41.

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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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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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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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Hasselhoff, David

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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No one will do it for you.