Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

13.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

19.

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

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Act, don't react!

26.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Wordsworth, William

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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

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

43.

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

44.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

46.

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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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie