Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The only way to start is to start.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Mother Teresa

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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