Motivational Quotes

Action

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Do it now. Then it's done.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wanamaker, John

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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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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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Pancoast, Mal

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.