Motivational Quotes

Action

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

- Allen, Loius A.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Holmes, Marjorie

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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 is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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

12.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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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.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

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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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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

Riley, Pat

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

36.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Batt, Al

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

45.

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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.