Motivational Quotes

Action

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Action

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

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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

11.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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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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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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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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

James, William

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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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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Warford, Rita

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.