Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Mencken, H. L.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Lowenstein, John

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

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, English

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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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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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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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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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

35.

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

Green, Dennis

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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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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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald