Motivational Quotes

Action

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Best Quotes about Action

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

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

Plutarch

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

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Angelou, Maya

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Saying, Zen

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

James, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Pauling, Linus

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

28.

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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Mother Teresa

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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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