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

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Saying, Zen

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Arendt, Hannah

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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

Shirley, James

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

16.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

Crow, Trammell

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

31.

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

Liter, James

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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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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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

49.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Smith, Liz