Motivational Quotes

Action

Act, don't react!

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Best Quotes about Action

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Warford, Rita

11.

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

Company, Lanes

12.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

13.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

James, William

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Angelou, Maya

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Lu Xun

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

31.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Dyer, Wayne

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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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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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

41.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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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, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

49.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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