Motivational Quotes

Action

Do it now. Then it's done.

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Best Quotes about Action

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Pancoast, Mal

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

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

Shirley, James

11.

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

Dyer, Wayne

12.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

13.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

14.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

15.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

16.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

18.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

21.

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

Balzac, Honore De

22.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

24.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

25.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Picasso, Pablo

27.

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

Cass, Lewis

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

James, William

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

35.

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

Proverb, Italian

36.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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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

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.