Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Lowenstein, John

Best Quotes about Action

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

Evans, Richard L.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Pauling, Linus

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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

James, William

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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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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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Eliot, George

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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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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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.

41.

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

Company, Lanes

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Ovid

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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