Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Bergson, Henri L.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Pancoast, Mal

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Howells, William Dean

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Ibo

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Riley, Pat

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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