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

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

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

James, William

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

Bergson, Henri L.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lowenstein, John

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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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

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Proverb, American

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Rohn, Jim