Motivational Quotes

Action

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Liter, James

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

Wanamaker, John

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Hubbard, Kin

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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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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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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

Graffiti

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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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