Motivational Quotes

Action

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Macdonald, George

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

Wilde, Oscar

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

The only way to start is to start.

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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

11.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

13.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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

Pancoast, Mal

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

23.

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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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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.

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Saunders

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

32.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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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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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.