Motivational Quotes

Action

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

- Troward, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

11.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

12.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

James, William

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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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

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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

25.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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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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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

Holtz, Lou

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Green, Dennis

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

46.

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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.