Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Levi, Peter

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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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 secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Gerstner, Lou

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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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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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.