Motivational Quotes

Action

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Action

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

2.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

3.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

4.

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

Picasso, Pablo

5.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

Plutarch

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

16.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

17.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

18.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

19.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

20.

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

Galsworthy, John

21.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

The only way to start is to start.

23.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

24.

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

Proverb

25.

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

26.

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.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

28.

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

29.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

31.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

32.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

34.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

36.

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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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

38.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

39.

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

Wanamaker, John

40.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

41.

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

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