Motivational Quotes

Action

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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The only way to start is to start.

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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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Horace

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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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

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Hazlitt, William

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.