Motivational Quotes

Action

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Best Quotes about Action

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Mother Teresa

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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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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smiles, Samuel

21.

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

Proverb

22.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

25.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

27.

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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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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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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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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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Liter, James

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.