Motivational Quotes

Action

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Action

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

James, William

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

19.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Proverb, Irish

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Graffiti

30.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

36.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Shirley, James

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

47.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur