Action Quotes
8300 quotes by 4287 authors
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The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you wait…
— Tom Peters
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I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Man must cast out of himself everything which separates him from God. He must will to live the divine life, and he must rise above…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you observe the many…
— Vernon Howard
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Pour the bulk of your time into action, not deciding. The state of indecision is a major time waster. Don't spend more than 60 seconds…
— Steve Pavlina
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I'm not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much…
— Tim Ferriss
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The most important actions are never comfortable.
— Tim Ferriss
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They know how to work without waste of energy. In order to get the best that is within themselves, they learn to eliminate from their…
— Walter Russell
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"To be is to do," says the existentialist. "One only becomes real (human) at the point of action."
— Leo Buscaglia
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He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We automatically give to each person we meet, but we choose what we give. Our words, our actions, must consciously set the stage for the…
— Marlo Morgan
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Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.
— Peter Drucker
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When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
— William Shakespeare
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Action always beats inaction.
— T. Harv Eker
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Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.
— Byron Katie
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The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.
— Richard Koch
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Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Build up virtue, and you master all.
— Laozi
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I wish to work miracles...
— Leonardo da Vinci
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