Motivational Quotes

Action

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Roger, John

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Plutarch

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Marley, Bob

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

20.

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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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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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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

24.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

James, William

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Holtz, Lou

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.