Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

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

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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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Act, don't react!

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

Auerbach, Red

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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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

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.