Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Letterman, Elmer G.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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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 view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Lowenstein, John

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

28.

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

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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.

39.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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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 wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Green, Dennis

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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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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

47.

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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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen