Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Bronowski, Jacob

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Macdonald, George

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

19.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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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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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

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

42.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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 secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George