Motivational Quotes

Action

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Action

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

Clarke, James Freeman

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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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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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

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

James, William

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

Lord, Shirley

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

Lowenstein, John

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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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Act, don't react!

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