Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Quarles, Francis

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Holtz, Lou

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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

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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smith, Liz

29.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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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

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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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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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

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor