Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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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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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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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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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

31.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

James, William

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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

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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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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red