Motivational Quotes

Action

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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Best Quotes about Action

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

Marley, Bob

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Pancoast, Mal

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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