Motivational Quotes

Action

You will never win if you never begin.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Act, don't react!

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lu Xun

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Company, Lanes

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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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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement