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

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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

Macdonald, George

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Ovid

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Saunders

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

36.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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

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