Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Action

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

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

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.

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

Horace

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bible

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

James, William

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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

Proverb, German

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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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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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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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

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.