Motivational Quotes

Action

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

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

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Proverb, Mexican

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

15.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

16.

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.

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

Lu Xun

18.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

19.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

20.

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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

22.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

26.

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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

31.

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

Aristotle

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Milea, Jinx

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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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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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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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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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

39.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

James, William

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

45.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.