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

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

11.

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

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Warford, Rita

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Bible

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Picasso, Pablo

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

21.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Smith, Liz

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

Hubbard, Kin

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

30.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

31.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

32.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

33.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

37.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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

Proverb

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

46.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

48.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Act, don't react!

50.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.