Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Roger, John

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Buffett, Warren

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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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