Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Action

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

James, William

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

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

13.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

18.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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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.

22.

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Mother Teresa

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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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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

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

36.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

42.

The only way to start is to start.

43.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

44.

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

Liter, James

45.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

48.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

49.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer