Motivational Quotes

Action

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

- Lowenstein, John

Best Quotes about Action

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Ross, Percy

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Confucius

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Einstein, Albert

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Iacocca, Lee

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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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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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Graffiti

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

James, William

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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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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.