Motivational Quotes

Action

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

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

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

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

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Smiles, Samuel

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Einstein, Albert

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

28.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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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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

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

Bible

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Ovid

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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 the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.