Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is character.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Mother Teresa

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Company, Lanes

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

11.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

12.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Hubbard, Kin

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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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

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

28.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

45.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

47.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.