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

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

Bible

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

James, William

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

Liter, James

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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 journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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The only way to start is to start.

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

30.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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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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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

39.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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 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

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

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Warford, Rita