Motivational Quotes

Action

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Action

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Act, don't react!

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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

Wilde, Oscar

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

14.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

15.

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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Rohn, Jim

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

32.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Action is character.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

Bible

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De