Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Cass, Lewis

Best Quotes about Action

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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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

24.

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

Ross, Percy

25.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

26.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

27.

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

Dyer, Wayne

28.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

29.

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

Aristotle

31.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

33.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

34.

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

35.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

36.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

37.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

38.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

39.

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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

43.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

44.

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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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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