Motivational Quotes

Action

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Best Quotes about Action

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

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

Einstein, Albert

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

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

James, William

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

Auerbach, Red

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Proverb, French

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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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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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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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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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.

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James, William