Motivational Quotes

Action

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

Iacocca, Lee

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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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

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

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Smiles, Samuel

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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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

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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