Motivational Quotes

Action

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about Action

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

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

Marley, Bob

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.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Cass, Lewis

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Horace

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

James, William

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.