Motivational Quotes

Action

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Best Quotes about Action

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Green, Dennis

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

10.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

11.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

12.

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

14.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

19.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

20.

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

Proverb, Mexican

21.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

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

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Do it now. Then it's done.

29.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

30.

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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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Eliot, George

33.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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