Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Gerstner, Lou

Best Quotes about Action

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Gerstner, Lou

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Marley, Bob

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

25.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

26.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

43.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John