Motivational Quotes

Action

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Einstein, Albert

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Greene, Robert

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

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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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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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

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.