Motivational Quotes

Action

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Best Quotes about Action

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

The best way to get something done is to begin.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

Action is character.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

James, William

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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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.