Motivational Quotes

Action

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

10.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

11.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

13.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

15.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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

Bible

41.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

48.

Act, don't react!

49.

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

Proverb, Italian

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De