Motivational Quotes

Action

The only way to start is to start.

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Best Quotes about Action

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

12.

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.

13.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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

Einstein, Albert

17.

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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

19.

Act, don't react!

20.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

21.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

27.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

28.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Saunders

33.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

34.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

44.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bergson, Henri L.

46.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Mother Teresa