Motivational Quotes

Action

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Best Quotes about Action

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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

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

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Mann, Horace

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

Act, don't react!

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

James, William

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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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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Roosevelt, Theodore