Motivational Quotes

Action

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

- Vinet

Best Quotes about Action

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Milea, Jinx

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Lu Xun

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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

Cass, Lewis

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

Hasselhoff, David

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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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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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

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

Proverb, American

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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.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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.