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

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Proverb, Mexican

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Bible

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Lu Xun

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich