Motivational Quotes

Action

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Best Quotes about Action

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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.

11.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

12.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

13.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

14.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

15.

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

Bible

17.

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

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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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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

20.

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

Sher, Barbara

21.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

22.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

24.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

25.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

26.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

27.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

32.

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

33.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

35.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

36.

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

37.

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

Company, Lanes

38.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

39.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

40.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

41.

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

Buffett, Warren

42.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

43.

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

44.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

46.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

47.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

48.

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

49.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael