Motivational Quotes

Action

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Italian

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Crow, Trammell

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Proverb, American

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

Allen, Loius A.

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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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Dyer, Wayne

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

36.

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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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

41.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

46.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ross, Percy

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich