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

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

Proverb, English

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Rohn, Jim

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saying, Zen

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Shirley, James

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

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

Ovid

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

30.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

34.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Einstein, Albert

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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The secret of getting things done is to act!