Motivational Quotes

Action

To begin, begin.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about Action

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Holtz, Lou

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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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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.

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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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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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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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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Holtz, Lou

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Act, don't react!

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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