Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Fichte, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Action

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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

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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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 whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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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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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Aristotle

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

Allen, Loius A.

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.