Motivational Quotes

Action

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

- Gielgud, John

Best Quotes about Action

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Bevan, Aneurin

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.