Motivational Quotes

Action

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Ibo

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

Shirley, James

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Lu Xun

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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 human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

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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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Pancoast, Mal

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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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.

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

James, William

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Saunders

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Plutarch

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

40.

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

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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

49.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.