Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

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

James, William

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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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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 world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Milne, A. A.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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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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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ovid

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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 time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Bible

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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