Motivational Quotes

Action

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Smith, Liz

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Carrel, Alexis

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Brown, Les

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Action is character.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Rogers, Will

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Sher, Barbara

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Adams, Charles Francis

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Action makes more fortune than caution.