Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Pancoast, Mal

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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Act, don't react!

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

Mother Teresa

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam