Motivational Quotes

Action

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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Best Quotes about Action

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

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

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

Mother Teresa

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

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Confucius

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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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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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Lord, Shirley

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Proverb

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.