Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

No rules for success will work if you don't.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

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

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wanamaker, John

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Lord, Shirley

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.