Motivational Quotes

Action

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, German

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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 better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, Italian

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Irish

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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

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Cass, Lewis

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan