Quotes about action

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

Berger, Sally on action
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"Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought."

Bergson, Henri L. on action
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"Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle."

Besant, Annie on action
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"Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature."

Bhagavad Gita on action
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"Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]"

Bible on action
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"But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]"

Bible on action
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"All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]"

Bible on action   

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

Bible on action
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"You can't aim a duck to death."

Boardman, Gael on action
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"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on action
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"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."

Bronowski, Jacob on action
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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 on action
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"Let your performance do the thinking."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on action
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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 on action
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"Take action in order to move toward your goals."

Brown, Les on action   

"It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men."

Bruyere, Jean De La on action   

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

Buffett, Warren on action
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"Let us do or die."

Burns, Robert on action
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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 on action
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"Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be."

Byrhhe, Anne on action
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"Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed."

Caddy, Eileen on action
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"A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need."

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro on action   

"A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent."

Calvin, John on action   

"Leap, and the net will appear."

Cameron, Julie on action
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"Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it."

Canfield, Jack on action
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"Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him."

Carlyle, Thomas on action   

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

Carlyle, Thomas on action   

"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do."

Carlyle, Thomas on action
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"Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid."

Carlyle, Thomas on action   

"Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."

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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

Carlyle, Thomas on action   

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do."

Carnegie, Andrew on action
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"Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia."

Carrel, Alexis on action
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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 on action
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"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."

Cass, Lewis on action
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"Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds."

Cervantes, Miguel De on action   

"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 on action   

"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on action   

"In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist."

Char, Rene on action   

"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on action
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