Motivational Quotes

Action

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

- Bowkett, Chris

Best Quotes about Action

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Sher, Barbara

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

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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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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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

Company, Lanes

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Graffiti

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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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.

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Levin, James

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.