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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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

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

Horace

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Act, don't react!

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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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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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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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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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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

Sher, Barbara

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.