Motivational Quotes

Action

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Aristotle

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

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

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Carrel, Alexis

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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

James, William

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

Bible

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Rohn, Jim

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Howells, William Dean

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

James, William

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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

29.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Mann, Horace

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

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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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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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