Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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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 have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Riley, Pat

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Evans, Richard L.

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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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.

Mandino, Og

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William