Motivational Quotes

Action

Do it now. Then it's done.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

Act, don't react!

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Green, Dennis

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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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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.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

James, William

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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

James, William

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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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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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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Lu Xun

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

Proverb, Chinese

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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