Motivational Quotes

Action

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Best Quotes about Action

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

Bronowski, Jacob

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Hazlitt, William

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.