Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

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

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

10.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

18.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

19.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

20.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Maharshi, Ramana

22.

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

Bible

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Milne, A. A.

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Ennius, Quintus

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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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

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

Auerbach, Red

35.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

36.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Troward, Thomas

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Action is character.

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet