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

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Carrel, Alexis

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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

Pancoast, Mal

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

22.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Proverb, American

24.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

34.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

36.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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.

Robbins, Anthony

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Adams, Charles Francis