Motivational Quotes

Action

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

Smith, Liz

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

James, William

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Proverb, American

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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

Bible

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.