Motivational Quotes

Action

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

- Schwarzkopf, Norman

Best Quotes about Action

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

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

Levin, James

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

Action is character.

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

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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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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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.

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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

Levi, Peter

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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl