Motivational Quotes

Action

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Greene, Robert

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.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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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.

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

Holtz, Lou

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Graffiti

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Bible

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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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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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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