Motivational Quotes

Action

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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Best Quotes about Action

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Gerstner, Lou

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Eliot, George

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Levi, Peter

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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.

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

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Cass, Lewis

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

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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

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

James, William

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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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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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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.