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

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Batt, Al

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

Viscott, David

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

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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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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Ross, Percy

28.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

37.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

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

Smith, Liz

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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 human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Liter, James

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Sher, Barbara