Motivational Quotes

Action

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Action

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

10.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Holmes, Marjorie

12.

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

Proverb

13.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

18.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

19.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

21.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

22.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

23.

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

Proverb, Chinese

24.

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.

25.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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

Hubbard, Kin

28.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

30.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is character.

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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

Liter, James

39.

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

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Cass, Lewis

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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