Motivational Quotes

Action

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

- Smiles, Samuel

Best Quotes about Action

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

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

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

11.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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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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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 curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Hasselhoff, David

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Holtz, Lou

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.