Motivational Quotes

Action

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Action

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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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 must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Marley, Bob

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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

Macdonald, George

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Angelou, Maya

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo