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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Carlyle, Thomas

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Saying, Zen

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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

Bible

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Proverb, Chinese

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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