Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Einstein, Albert

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Graffiti

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Lord, Shirley

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

James, William

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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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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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Hasselhoff, David

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bowkett, Chris

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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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.

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