Motivational Quotes

Action

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Proverb, Mexican

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hasselhoff, David

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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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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

29.

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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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

33.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.