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

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

Eliot, George

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

Holmes, Marjorie

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Viscott, David

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

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

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

Lowenstein, John

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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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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

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Einstein, Albert

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Proverb, English

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

Shirley, James

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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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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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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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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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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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.