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

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

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Evans, Richard L.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Proverb, Chinese

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Crow, Trammell

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Effective action is always unjust.