Motivational Quotes

Action

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

- Letterman, David

Best Quotes about Action

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Proverb, French

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

Schmidt, Helmut

10.

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

Warford, Rita

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

12.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

13.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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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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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Rohn, Jim

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

28.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

33.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

Angelou, Maya

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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