Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Pauling, Linus

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Do it now. Then it's done.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Mann, Horace

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Milne, A. A.

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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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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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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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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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

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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Crow, Trammell

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

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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