Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Holcomb, John H.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Levin, James

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Proverb, Irish

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Horace

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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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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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Bible

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Sher, Barbara

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal