Motivational Quotes

Action

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

- Rowan, Carl

Best Quotes about Action

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

Company, Lanes

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

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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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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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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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

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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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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

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

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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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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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Holtz, Lou

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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