Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Gide, Andre

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

James, William

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Saying, Zen

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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

Proverb, American

37.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

39.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

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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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.