Motivational Quotes

Action

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Action is character.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Sher, Barbara

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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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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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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Milea, Jinx

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Evans, Richard L.