Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Lincoln, Abraham

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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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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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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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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only way to start is to start.

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally