Action Quotes - Page 17

• It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Motivational, Helping Others

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• What you are will show in what you do.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivation, Human Nature, Work Related

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• There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Best Effort

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• The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Motivational, Time, Attitude

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• The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life And Love, Men, Ends

  "Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

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• Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

  Julian Bond

  Motivational, Monday, History

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  Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

  Samuel Beckett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  1983 Worst ward Ho.

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• He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.

  Antonio Porchia

  Inspiring, Desire, Creating Art

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• The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

  Ezra Pound

  Work, Thinking, Curse

  1920 Letter to James Joyce, 7-8 Jun.

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• Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Love Life, Best Husband, Rewards

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• It's not enough to be busy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Busy, Enough

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.

  Eliphas Levi

  Success, Strong, Procrastination

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• Action is the real measure of intelligence.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Success, Business

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• Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Entrepreneur, Vision

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• The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

  William Ralph Inge

  Nature, Used, Faculty

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• He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2011

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• Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

  Dale Evans

  Love, Marriage, Christmas

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• It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Any action is better than no action at all.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Confidence, Face Your Fears

  Norman Vincent Peale (1996). “Power of the Plus Factor”, Ballantine Books

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• When deeds speak, words are nothing.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Inspirational, Life, Deeds Done

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• Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Thinking

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• It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Retrospect, Mark

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.506, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

  Tony Robbins

  Knowing, Enough, Minor Things

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Decisions You Make, Making Choices

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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