Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

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.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

The best way to get something done is to begin.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Horace

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

Company, Lanes

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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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

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Saying, Zen

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

41.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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