Motivational Quotes

Action

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

- Paterno, Joe

Best Quotes about Action

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Proverb, German

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

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

Macdonald, George

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

11.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

12.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

13.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Levin, James

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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

17.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

31.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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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

33.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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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