Motivational Quotes

Action

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Best Quotes about Action

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Dyer, Wayne

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Horace

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

Pancoast, Mal

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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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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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus