Motivational Quotes

Action

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Action

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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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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

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Act, don't react!

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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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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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

17.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

18.

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

Proverb, American

19.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

21.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Macdonald, George

24.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Aristotle

31.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

32.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

33.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

34.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

38.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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