Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Bible

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

Rogers, Will

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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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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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

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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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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin