Motivational Quotes

Action

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Best Quotes about Action

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Carrel, Alexis

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

17.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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

Proverb, English

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

23.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

24.

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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

33.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Ovid

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.