Motivational Quotes

Action

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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Best Quotes about Action

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

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

Carrel, Alexis

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

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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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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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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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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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Crow, Trammell

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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