Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

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.

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

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Croce, Benedetto

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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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

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Angelou, Maya

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.