Motivational Quotes

Action

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Howells, William Dean

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Aurelius, Marcus

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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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

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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