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

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Proverb, American

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

Smiles, Samuel

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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

14.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

15.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

Bible

21.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

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

Aikman, Leo

23.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

24.

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

Green, Dennis

25.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

26.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

28.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

29.

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

James, William

30.

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

31.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von