Motivational Quotes

Action

Do it now. Then it's done.

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Best Quotes about Action

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Irish

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Howells, William Dean

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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