Motivational Quotes

Action

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

- Ennius, Quintus

Best Quotes about Action

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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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

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

James, William

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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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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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

28.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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

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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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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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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Picasso, Pablo

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

Holtz, Lou

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

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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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French