Motivational Quotes

Action

The only way to start is to start.

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Best Quotes about Action

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bible

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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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

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Auerbach, Red

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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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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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Milne, A. A.

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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The only way to start is to start.

34.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Proverb, Chinese

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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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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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

43.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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 secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson