Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, German

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

Hill, Napoleon

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Smith, Liz

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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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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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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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Action is character.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Company, Lanes

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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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

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Ross, Percy

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet