Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Lord, Shirley

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Saunders

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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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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.