Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Action

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Graffiti

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Iacocca, Lee

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Levin, James

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

Smith, Liz

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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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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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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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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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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Ross, Percy

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Act, don't react!

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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