Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

Einstein, Albert

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

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

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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.

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

Proverb, French

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

Levin, James

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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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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Liter, James

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gerstner, Lou

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