Motivational Quotes

Action

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Best Quotes about Action

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Wanamaker, John

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

Sandburg, Carl

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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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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Mother Teresa

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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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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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Act, don't react!

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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