Motivational Quotes

Action

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Best Quotes about Action

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Ziglar, Zig

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Proverb, German

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Arendt, Hannah

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Wanamaker, John

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.