Motivational Quotes

Action

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Action

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

James, William

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Shakespeare, William

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene