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

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Company, Lanes

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Courteline, Georges

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

11.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

James, William

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The only way to start is to start.

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

45.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

49.

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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.