Motivational Quotes

Action

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Best Quotes about Action

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Levin, James

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Marley, Bob

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

Eliot, George

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

Macdonald, George

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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

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

Lu Xun

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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

16.

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

Ovid

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

18.

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

19.

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

20.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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.

22.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

23.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

24.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

34.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

35.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

36.

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

Proverb, German

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

38.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Do it now. Then it's done.

40.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

45.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis