Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

No rules for success will work if you don't.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Crow, Trammell

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

James, William

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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

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Aristotle

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.