Motivational Quotes

Action

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Eliot, George

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

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Green, Dennis

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

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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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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Levin, James

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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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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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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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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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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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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.