Motivational Quotes

Action

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

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

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

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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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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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

Graffiti

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

Auerbach, Red

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Einstein, Albert

28.

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

29.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

40.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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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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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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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