Action Quotes - Page 23

• Action expresses priorities.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiration, Heirs, Owners

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• Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

  Russell Conwell

  Men, Philadelphia, Wish

  Russell Conwell (2007). “Acres of Diamonds (Business Success Edition)”, p.50, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

  Og Mandino

  Pride, Giving, Water

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• Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

  William Hazlitt

  Happiness, Indolence, States

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1029, Delphi Classics

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• In order to make a visualization a reality in the world of form, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen.

  Wayne Dyer

  Reality, Order, World

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.22, Hay House, Inc

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• The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Adventure, Understanding, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.208

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• Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

  Alexander Pope

  Spring, Judging, Deeds

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• Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.

  Theodore Levitt

  Ideas, Useless, Proof

  Theodore Levitt (1974). “Marketing for business growth”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Change, Language Words, Acting

  Ingrid Bengis (1973). “COMBAT IN THE EROGENOUS ZONE”

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• Doing the Right Thing - Sometimes doing the right thing, is to do nothing at all.

  Mike Kafka

  Sometimes, Doing The Right Thing, Right Thing

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• You're a doer, because you're prepared to make the necessary effort to translate your dream into action.

  Paul McCabe

  Dream, Effort, Doers

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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.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Order, Taste, Judgment

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• It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing.

  John Braine

  Inspiration, Writing

  John Braine (1975). “Writing a Novel”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.

  Herbert Spencer

  Two, Doe, Lines

  Herbert Spencer (1868). “Social Statics, Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed”, p.510

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• Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're stalled, “standing still”.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Guidance, Guides, Standing Still

  "Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life".

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• Infuse your life with action.

  Bradley Whitford

  Waiting, Waiting For You, Make It Happen

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• Practice non-action. Work without doing.

  Laozi

  Work, Practice, Tao Te Ching Leadership

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Names, Should

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.53, Penguin

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• The test of any man lies in action.

  Pindar

  Lying, Men, Tests

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• Be purposeful. Be patient, and be active!

  John Assaraf

  Success, Patient, Active

  John Assaraf, Murray Smith (2008). “The Answer: Grow Any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom, and Live an Extraordinary Life”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Actions have consequences.

  Morton Blackwell

  Actions Have Consequences, Consequence

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• The food of hope is meditative action.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Quality, Encounters, Body

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• Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.

  William Davenant

  Design, Fierce, Ashamed

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