Motivational Quotes

Action

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Action

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Carrel, Alexis

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

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

Bible

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

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

11.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

12.

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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

14.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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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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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

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

19.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

21.

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

Graffiti

22.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

23.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

26.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

27.

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

Milea, Jinx

28.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Adams, Charles Francis

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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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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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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 am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

40.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

41.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

42.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

45.

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

Proverb, Mexican

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish