Motivational Quotes

Action

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

Mother Teresa

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

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Shakespeare, William

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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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

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Proverb, American

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Hubbard, Kin

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Shakespeare, William

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

Auerbach, Red

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.