Motivational Quotes

Action

You don't have to get it right the first time.

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hasselhoff, David

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

11.

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

Company, Lanes

12.

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

Confucius

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

18.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

21.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, French

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

35.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

37.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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