Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Nagarjuna, Siddha

Best Quotes about Action

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.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buffett, Warren

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Levin, James

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

Proverb, French

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The best way to get something done is to begin.