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

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

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Balzac, Honore De

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Lowenstein, John

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Action is character.

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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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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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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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

Eliot, George

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Riley, Pat

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

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

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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert