Motivational Quotes

Action

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Action

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Bible

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Dyer, Wayne

29.

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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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Rogers, Will

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George