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

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Warford, Rita

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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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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Proverb, American

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

Green, Dennis

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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

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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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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

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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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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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