Motivational Quotes

Action

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

- Levin, James

Best Quotes about Action

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Iacocca, Lee

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Eliot, George

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Courteline, Georges

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Do it now. Then it's done.

28.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

29.

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

Sher, Barbara

30.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

31.

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

Proverb, English

32.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

33.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

35.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.