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

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

10.

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

11.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

12.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Eliot, George

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Act, don't react!

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

Brown, Les

18.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

19.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

21.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

22.

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

Company, Lanes

23.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

26.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

28.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

29.

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

30.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

38.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

39.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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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

42.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

43.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne