Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

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

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Proverb, Irish

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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

James, William

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.