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

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

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Liter, James

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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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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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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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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

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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 not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.