Motivational Quotes

Action

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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Best Quotes about Action

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

Wordsworth, William

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Proverb, Mexican

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Horace

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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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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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lu Xun

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)