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

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Company, Lanes

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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

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.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Einstein, Albert

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Allen, Loius A.

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Howells, William Dean

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Croce, Benedetto

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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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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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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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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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald