Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

James, William

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Howells, William Dean

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Warford, Rita

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.