Motivational Quotes

Action

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Pauling, Linus

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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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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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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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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 secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Carrel, Alexis

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Greene, Robert

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

Cass, Lewis

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie