Motivational Quotes

Action

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Best Quotes about Action

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

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

Confucius

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

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Liter, James

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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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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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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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Sandburg, Carl

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Wanamaker, John

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

39.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De