Motivational Quotes

Action

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Best Quotes about Action

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Mother Teresa

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Horace

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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The only way to start is to start.

26.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Green, Dennis

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Ovid

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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

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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