Unlock Your Potential with Motivational Quotes - page 140

Tis the motive exalts the action; \'Tis the doing, and not the deed.
Tis the motive exalts the action; 'Tis the doing, and not the deed.
 Margaret Preston
The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.
Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.
The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.
Wake up with a plan of action, go to bed with satisfaction.
 Greg Plitt
It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.
 Immanuel Kant
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.
Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.
 Gustave Flaubert
Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.
 Wim Wenders
Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once.
 Mark Victor Hansen
I took action as governor to preserve the sanctity of life.
Be a self-starter. Do it now! When you don't know how to do something, start. Beware of the paralysis of analysis. Be a person of action.
 Mamie McCullough
Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.
 Temple Grandin
The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day.
 Emily Giffin
Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
 Les Brown
You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.'
 Tommy Cooper
Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.
Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.
 Boland T. Jones
The kind of values for which I was supposed to kill, such as democracy and national independence, were better served, I thought, through non-violent action.
 Torbjorn Tannsjo