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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lu Xun

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

Schmidt, Helmut

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Levin, James

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

10.

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

11.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Proverb, Chinese

16.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

17.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

18.

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

Proverb, Ibo

19.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

20.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

21.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

22.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

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

25.

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

Proverb, Italian

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

29.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

30.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

32.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Balzac, Honore De

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

43.

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

Heine, Heinrich

44.

Do it now. Then it's done.

45.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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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

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

49.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Allen, Loius A.