Motivational Quotes

Action

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

28.

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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Action is character.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen