Motivational Quotes

Action

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Action

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.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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 world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Mexican

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Green, Dennis

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Ovid

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

48.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo