Motivational Quotes

Action

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

- Segal, Ronald

Best Quotes about Action

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Proverb, American

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Howells, William Dean

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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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 deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Marley, Bob

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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

40.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.