Motivational Quotes

Action

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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Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

2.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

3.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

4.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

5.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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One of the marks of a 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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

12.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

15.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

17.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

Greene, Robert

19.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

20.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

23.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

24.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

25.

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

Cass, Lewis

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

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

30.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

31.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

32.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

James, William

34.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

36.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

37.

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

Aristotle

38.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

39.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

40.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

41.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

42.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

43.

Act, don't react!

44.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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