Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Howells, William Dean

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Bible

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.

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

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

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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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Horace

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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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