Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Chinese

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Act, don't react!

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

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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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

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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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.