Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Action

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Do it now. Then it's done.

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.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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The only way to start is to start.

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Sher, Barbara

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Horace

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.