Motivational Quotes

Action

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Best Quotes about Action

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

Courteline, Georges

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

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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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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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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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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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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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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.