Action Quotes

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  If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.150, Lulu.com

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4990, Delphi Classics

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• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Action expresses priorities.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• Nothing happens until something moves.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Moving, Inspiration

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• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Encouragement

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 19, 2015

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• Action and becoming are one.

  Meister Eckhart

  Acting, Becoming

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• When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

  W. Clement Stone

  Motivational, Business, Fear

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• Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

  Cathy Hopkins

  Courage, Determination, Swimming

  Cathy Hopkins (2009). “Friend Me: Mates, Dates, and Inflatable Bras; Mates, Dates, and Cosmic Kisses; Mates, Dates, and Designer Divas”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Action is character.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “The Last Tycoon”, p.187, Penguin UK

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• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Clever

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  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

  John Quincy Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

  John Ruskin

  Motivational, Believe, Acceptance

  John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.732, John Ruskin

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• Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Confidence, Causes, Face Your Fears

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

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  Action is the foundational key to all success.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• 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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• Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Men, Standing Alone, Deliberation

  Charles de Gaulle (1959). “War Memoirs”

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• Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Causes, Chance

  Aristotle (2016). “Rhetoric”, p.54, Aristotle

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• Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted.

  Raymond Charles Barker

  Ideas, World, Changed

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• Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book.

  Erich Fromm

  Powerful, Book, Ideas

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.152, Lantern Books

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• Make history or be a part of it.

  Phil Knight

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