Motivational Quotes

Action

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

- Maharshi, Ramana

Best Quotes about Action

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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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

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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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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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

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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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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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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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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

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

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

Howells, William Dean

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