Motivational Quotes

Action

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

- Char, Rene

Best Quotes about Action

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

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

James, William

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

Smith, Liz

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

10.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

11.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

12.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

14.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

16.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

22.

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

23.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

25.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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 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.

33.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

34.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Proverb, Mexican

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Mother Teresa

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

42.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

43.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.