Motivational Quotes

Action

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

- Linall Jr. A. L.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Levin, James

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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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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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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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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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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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Proverb, German

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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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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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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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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