Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is character.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Greene, Robert

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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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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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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 secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Proverb, American

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Gerstner, Lou

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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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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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius