Motivational Quotes

Action

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

Act, don't react!

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

Smiles, Samuel

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

10.

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

11.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

12.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bible

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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

18.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

19.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

20.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

21.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

22.

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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

25.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

27.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

30.

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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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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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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 must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

44.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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