Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Action

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Gerstner, Lou

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Levin, James

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mother Teresa

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

Pancoast, Mal

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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He who limps is still walking.