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 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

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

Fichte, Johann G.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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

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

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Lord, Shirley

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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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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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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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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Ovid

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

Hasselhoff, David

27.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

43.

The only way to start is to start.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.