Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

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

Greene, Robert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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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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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Proverb, American

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre