Motivational Quotes

Action

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Best Quotes about Action

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Einstein, Albert

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Batt, Al

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Sher, Barbara

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

James, William

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

Saying, Zen

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Action is character.

32.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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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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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

43.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.