Motivational Quotes

Action

Do it now. Then it's done.

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Best Quotes about Action

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Greene, Robert

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Company, Lanes

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

10.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

11.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

12.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

14.

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

15.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Ovid

17.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

19.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

20.

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

South, Bishop Robert

21.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

22.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

30.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

31.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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

Aristotle

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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What you are will show in what you do.

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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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Proverb, Mexican

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

48.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Horace