Motivational Quotes

Action

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

- Paterno, Joe

Best Quotes about Action

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

Action is character.

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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

11.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

12.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

13.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Liter, James

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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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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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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

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

Crow, Trammell

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

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Act, don't react!

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Sher, Barbara

33.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

34.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Ovid

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Sandburg, Carl

39.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

41.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

48.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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