Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

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

Macdonald, George

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

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

Riley, Pat

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Proverb, French

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Allen, Loius A.

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Act, don't react!

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, German

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

41.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Ovid

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