Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

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

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Graffiti

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

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Einstein, Albert

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only way to start is to start.

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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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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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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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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.

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

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Eliot, George

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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 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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

Courteline, Georges

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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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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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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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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