Motivational Quotes

Action

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Ross, Percy

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

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

Proverb, American

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Macdonald, George

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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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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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

20.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

32.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

33.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

34.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

45.

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

Lu Xun

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Marley, Bob