Motivational Quotes

Action

Do it now. Then it's done.

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Best Quotes about Action

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

James, William

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

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Mencken, H. L.

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Warford, Rita

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

23.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wordsworth, William

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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

Levin, James

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Cass, Lewis

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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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Levi, Peter

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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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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