Motivational Quotes

Action

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Best Quotes about Action

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Bible

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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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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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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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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

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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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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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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.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Pancoast, Mal

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.