Motivational Quotes

Action

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

South, Bishop Robert

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Milne, A. A.

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

Confucius

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

10.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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The only way to start is to start.

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

Eliot, George

19.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

21.

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

Green, Dennis

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

Graffiti

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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

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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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

28.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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

Courteline, Georges

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

39.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

40.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

41.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya