Motivational Quotes

Action

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Action

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ovid

Action is character.

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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Bible

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Bible

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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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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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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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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.

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.