Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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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

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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 best way to get something done is to begin.

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Holtz, Lou

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.