Motivational Quotes

Action

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Arendt, Hannah

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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

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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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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.