Motivational Quotes

Action

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

- Adams, Charles Francis

Best Quotes about Action

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

14.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Act, don't react!

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

25.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.