Taking Action Quotes
113 quotes by 103 authors
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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
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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek…
— Steven Brust
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
— Edmund Burke
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
— John Burroughs
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Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction…
— Jack Canfield
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
— Thomas Carlyle
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
— Andrew Carnegie
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The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
— Oswald Chambers
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Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog…
— John Jay Chapman
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The day will happen whether or not you get up.
— John Ciardi
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It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
— Vaclav Havel
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What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action.
— Tony Robbins
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We're taking action against evil people. Because this great nation of many religions understands, our war is not against Islam, or against faith practiced by…
— George W. Bush
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Don't get bogged down with all the details of how it's going to come together. Just do the dishes. And watch the momentum build.
— Brian J. White
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I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this…
— Jody Williams
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I fear the future I wish for my children is at risk, so I'm taking action. Please join me...
— Madonna Ciccone
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Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.
— Confucius
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To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined…
— Richard Kiel
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Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.
— Whoopi Goldberg
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The world doesn’t need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.
— will.i.am
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