Motivational Quotes

Action

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

- Gorski, Nick

Best Quotes about Action

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

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

Wordsworth, William

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

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

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Lord, Shirley

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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.