Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Fichte, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

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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.

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

Bowkett, Chris

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

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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

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.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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 itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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.

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Milea, Jinx

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von