Motivational Quotes

Action

Winning starts with beginning.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

James, William

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

Mother Teresa

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Edwards, Edward

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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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Bible

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

32.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Eliot, George

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