Motivational Quotes

Action

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

- Maharshi, Ramana

Best Quotes about Action

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

Curcio, Joan L.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Macdonald, George

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Pancoast, Mal

No rules for success will work if you don't.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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One of the marks of a 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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

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

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.