Motivational Quotes

Action

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about 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.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

10.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

11.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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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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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

17.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

21.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

23.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

24.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

James, William

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

30.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

32.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

Dyer, Wayne

37.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

38.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

42.

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

Sher, Barbara

43.

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

Smiles, Samuel

44.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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One of the marks of a 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

46.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Smith, Liz

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.