Motivational Quotes

Action

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Best Quotes about Action

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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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

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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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

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

23.

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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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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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

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

28.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

29.

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

Holtz, Lou

30.

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

Brown, Les

32.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

37.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

41.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Shirley, James

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

45.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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