Motivational Quotes

Action

Act, don't react!

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

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

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Dyer, Wayne

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Wilde, Oscar

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Green, Dennis

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

James, William