Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Lord, Shirley

Best Quotes about Action

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Plutarch

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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The only way to start is to start.

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Lu Xun

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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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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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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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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Ovid

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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