Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Eliot, George

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Smiles, Samuel

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Robbins, Anthony

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, Ibo

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Graffiti

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Saunders

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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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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mother Teresa

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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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