Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

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

Croce, Benedetto

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Mother Teresa

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

25.

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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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

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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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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

33.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

38.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

43.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Shakespeare, William

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda